LinuxQuestions.org - privoxy/samba problems

So, I'm developing a webapp for work and I've been working on it from many different computers, both windows and linux. I set up a webserver, greebo, and set up a samba share on it so I could compile directly to it from the workstations. Now, this is all working fine except yesterday I tried to mount the share from my main workstation, wintermute, for the first time and got some very weird results. On the webserver the are some softlinks that as far as samba's concerned I'm allowed to follow, and this works from every computer except my workstation (btw, both greebo and wintermute are running 32-bit suse 9.1, fully updated). Unable to cd into my work directory I did ls -al and saw that the links were owned by privoxy.users and the other files were owned by privoxy.privoxy! I'd never heard of privoxy (www . privoxy . org) before so I called over my officemate who explained what it was, though couldn't explain how it came to be installed on wintermute and owning my samba shares. So, I uninstalled it to no avail. I removed the privoxy user and the privoxy group. There is no privoxy user/group on the webserver and it doesn't have that software installed. This is what I get now:

Code:

wintermute:/mnt # mount -t smbfs -o username=xxx //greebo/tomcat /mnt/tomcat

wintermute:/mnt # cd tomcat/

wintermute:/mnt/tomcat # l

total 4

drwxr-xr-x  1 root root  4096 2004-09-15 08:37 ./

drwxr-xr-x  5 root root  120 2004-09-08 12:23 ../

drwxr-xr-x  1  100  101    0 2004-09-01 09:41 balancer/

lrwxrwxrwx  1  100 users  33 2004-09-14 09:10 catalina.out -> /var/log/tomcat/base/catalina.out

lrwxrwxrwx  1  100 users  12 2004-09-02 09:58 qci -> /storage/qci

drwxr-xr-x  1  100  101    0 2004-08-31 09:32 ROOT/

So, why is this a problem? Because (which, btw, is what happened before I uninstalled privoxy):

Code:

wintermute:/mnt/tomcat # more catalina.out

catalina.out: No such file or directory

wintermute:/mnt/tomcat # cd qci

bash: cd: qci: No such file or directory

Now, I can repeat all these steps from another suse 9.1 (or RH, slack, etc) box and everything works fine.

Code:

luggage:/ # mount -t smbfs -o username=xxx //greebo/tomcat /mnt/

luggage:/ # l /mnt

total 731

drwxr-xr-x    1 root    root        4096 Sep 14 09:10 ./

drwxr-xr-x  24 root    root          576 Sep  7 13:26 ../

drwxr-xr-x    1 root    root        4096 Aug 31 09:32 ROOT/

drwxr-xr-x    1 root    root        4096 Sep  1 09:41 balancer/

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root      731116 Sep 14 09:05 catalina.out*

drwxr-xr-x    1 root    root        4096 Sep 14 09:09 qci/

Same is true with windows. I'm pretty confident that the problem is with wintermute, but any ideas on how to remedy this problem? Why it happened in the first place? I'm out of ideas and am ready to give up as it's taking away from my development time and I do have other machines to work from. Having said that, I hate to walk away not knowing why and how to fix it as I'm sure this won't be the last time I want to do this...
Thanks,
m

ps: 100 was user privoxy and 101 was group privoxy...
pps: I tried mounting another computers samba share and that worked fine, no privoxy user/group.... Of course, this is after I uninstalled privoxy and removed the user/group so maybe samba has a memory or something? I did uninstall and reinstall samba as well. No difference...