Files on CIFS share show no contents until updated

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • A CIFS share is mounted from our NAS on several different Windows and RHEL clients
  • A file is updated on the NAS by another system via FTP
  • That file can no longer be read on some CIFS clients until the file is updated again
Output from RHEL system displaying issue
#df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
//CIFS-SERVER/share   1.2T  904G  281G  77% /mountpoint

# ls -l /mountpoint/examplefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176 Jun 28 23:02 /mountpoint/examplefile

# cat /mountpoint/examplefile

# cksum /mountpoint/examplefile
1119974017 176 /mountpoint/examplefile
Output from RHEL system working as expected
#df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
//CIFS-SERVER/share   1.2T  904G  281G  77% /mountpoint

# ls -l /mountpoint/examplefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176 Jun 28 23:02 /mountpoint/examplefile

# cat /mountpoint/examplefile
<shows expected file contents>

# cksum /mountpoint/examplefile
2807975810 176 /mountpoint/examplefile

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • CIFS share mounted on multiple RHEL servers
  • Files on the share are updated by other means

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