Some files hidden when viewed through network share

[Johan Sandqvist]

Accessing content created by my own account on the D: drive will show
all available folders and files. Oddly enough, when the same folders are
viewed through the D$ share some of the content is missing! (see
http://johan.mvps.org/share.png for a screen shot).

As can be seen in the screen shot image, not all content is shown when
browsing the folder through the share. The folder 'johan' and the first
text file were both created by writing directly to the D: drive
(ntbackup for the folder and the text file with right-click->new text
file). The second text file was created through the share. Obviously,
the security settings for the files are the same (since the same account
created them - but also verified just to be sure).

Everything is perfectly accessible from the share (if you e.g. type in
the correct path), it just doesn't show up in the explorer window.
System is a newly installed XP Pro SP2 with all available updates at WU.
I can't think of any reason why this would happen, I've heard other
people having similar problems, so what's happening here?

// Johan

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Johan Sandqvist
Microsoft Exchange MVP

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[odie.simpson]

I have the same problem. I have a Web server running Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit, which was anytime upgraded from home premium oem, and when I access the D drive of this server from windows xp pro across the network, I cannot see all files in explorer, or in a command prompt listing, approx 6000 files are not visible, but if I type the file or folder name into explorer, or say I want to edit a php file in notepad and type the name of the file, it opens it. FTP from the xp pro client shows all files.

I also have a backup web server, also running windows 7 ultimate 32 bit, which was installed from scratch, no upgrade, and viewing the files from the xp pro client I can see all files, none are missing.

I have found several ways that other people have fixed this problem, but none work for me.


I also have a small gripe with Windows 7 in general, I share a folder, give full control to Administrators, and try to create files in this folder from another pc on the network, access is denied, even though that pc is using the exact same user account, password, groups as the file server. If I add the individual user accounts one by one, and give them full control, it works fine. I was unable to replicate this problem with xp pro, but both windows 7 machines (upgraded and clean installed) have this issue. Did I miss something with NTFS security permissions? I just finished networking course and we learned all about how to do the NTFS security settings, but in Windows 7 it doesn't appear to work the same way?

Any ideas?

 

[odie.simpson]

After searching for nearly 2 days, I found a solution that fixes this problem.

The cause for me was Avast Internet Security, V5.0.889 and later. I uninstalled Avast in Safe mode using awsclear (run as admin), reboot, install avast internet security 5.0.594. (it has to do with the virtualisation feature and auto sandboxing, hidden stuff that you normally can't see)

All files on the Windows 7 Ultimate file/web server are visible over windows xp pro, and smb (linux), and even Mac OS X.

Problem Solved!