SMB problem : shared folders disappear

Hi !
I've been using the SMB feature of SMS for quite some time, and I just noticed something strange : when I enter one of the 3 shared folders I have, when I go back to root, only one is still shown. The only solution I found is to either restart SMS or restart the SMB server. I figure it must refresh the shared folder list, which seems logical. It is always the same folder that survives.

I tried a lot of things : supress it for the case it was the culprit, supress the others, try one by one, etc. and in every case folders A & B are not shown anymore while folders C still is (even if A or B are the only folders shared).

It doesn't seem size related since A<C<B so no min or max size should be the problem (or both ?) Names are not that complicated either, no funny characters, only alphnumericals.

I'm running all this on a 30004R PS2, launching SMS with FMCB, the network is a plain old ethernet cable plugged straight into the computer, which is a Mac (could this be the problem ? SMB support in Mac OS ? Anyway I doubt a lot of you will be able to help on this side of the question...) If you have any ideas, you're welcome, if not, well it's not that much of a problem since I generally go into one of the shared folder, watch my movie, then shut the console down, which by the way explains I didn't find out about this problem until now...

@gnom:
I have been using the SMB interface of SMS for a very long time with the computers in my LAN, which are two WinXP systems and one Win2K system, all of which have fileshared drives that I access from SMS to browse and play media files (primarily TV shows and movies). I have been doing this for years now, and have never seen the phenomena you mention (individual shares disappearing from the root).

This makes me fairly sure that it has to be specific to the SMB implementation in your Mac OS, or possibly something configurable in that implementation which you need to change. (Like some time limit for established SMB connections etc.)

I found it particularly odd that you mentioned folder C as still being visible when only A & B were shared !
This would mean that the SMB server is continuing to share the C folder even after you took away its permission to do so !
That's direct insubordination, with the computer refusing to obey its human owner... :crazy:

That has never happened here with any of my Windows systems.

I'm not saying that Windows is a perfect OS (it certainly is not), but I am saying that it never automatically shared stuff without my permission. (I guess it might do that for people using 'simple file sharing' though, which I do not.)

Best regards: dlanor

Well I didn't make myself clear. If C isn't shared, at least it doesn't show up in SMS. what I meant was that regardless of what folders ar shared, A & B won't show after a return to the list of shared folders whole C will, if of course they're shared.

As you said, I suspect some bad implementation of SMB in Mac OS, which would kind of make sense since SMB was originally designed for Windows (at least I believe) and Mac OS already has some "native" protocol (I'm not saying it's a good reason but it seems to make sense). I'm not that good on networks but it makes me think about of a refresh problem of some kind, which may have not been checked thouroughly enough since it is not the most common usage.

Anyway, I was kind of hoping someone would have an instant key to this problem, but since it doesn't seem so, I'll try to figure it out by myself... Guess the next step should be to try to access the shared folders with a windows based computer.

However, as I already stated, it's a minor problem...