can you do an ls -la and post the results ?

ls -al where

edit:

it@user:~$mount
...
//192.168.120.16/share on /home/it/dos/n type cifs (rw,mand,nosuid,nodev,user=it)
...

it@user:~/dos/n$ ls -al
total 184644
drwxr-xr-x 1 it it 0 2008-01-11 13:20 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 it it 4096 2010-02-09 14:50 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 it it 546 2006-09-02 13:51 1.vnc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 it it 12697600 2008-04-16 09:08 20070329150426640_ML-2010_GDI.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 it it 29265 1995-06-01 10:39 BDS.COM
drwxr-xr-x 1 it it 0 2009-08-26 13:46 DigiNet Center 4.13P7
-rwxr-xr-x 1 it it 23510720 2007-12-06 10:22 dotnetfx.exe
drwxr-xr-x 1 it it 0 2009-07-01 10:27 gps
-rwxr-xr-x 1 it it 28716 2009-07-01 15:43 logo.gif
-rwxr-xr-x 1 it it 25974 2009-07-01 15:44 logo_trans.gif
-rwxr-xr-x 1 it it 158727 2009-07-01 15:56 logo_trans.pcx
-rwxr-xr-x 1 it it 46623 2009-07-01 15:50 logo_trans.png
-rwxr-xr-x 1 it it 2963968 2009-06-29 00:28 NSClient++-0.3.6-Win32.msi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 it it 149286272 2008-10-15 09:44 OOo_3.0.0.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 it it 60980 2009-11-03 10:55 List.pdf
drwxr-xr-x 1 it it 0 2009-03-31 17:14 scan
-rwxr-xr-x 1 it it 129536 2009-12-03 16:14 Thumbs.db
it@user:~/dos/n$

hmm no symlinks there (dosbox doesn't like those)
I wonder if stat works.
as I think that is the last test we do before deciding to display a file or not

What sym link I have to create?

Thanks for your help!

can you type stat logo.gif and stat -f logo.gif and post the results ?

it@user:~/dos/n$ stat logo.gif
File: `logo.gif'
Size: 28716 Blocks: 64 IO Block: 16384 regular file
Device: 18h/24d Inode: 17210855488 Links: 1
Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 1000/ it) Gid: ( 1000/ it)
Access: 2010-02-04 00:00:00.000000000 +0200
Modify: 2009-07-01 15:43:14.000000000 +0300
Change: 1940-10-24 04:26:18.955161600 +0200

it@user:~/dos/n$ stat -f logo.gif
File: "logo.gif"
ID: 0 Namelen: 4096 Type: UNKNOWN (0xff534d42)
Block size: 32768 Fundamental block size: 32768
Blocks: Total: 3603201 Free: 1983617 Available: 1983617
Inodes: Total: 0 Free: 0
it@user:~/dos/n$

I found something. When windows share is mounted in n it's size is 0:

it@user:~/dos$ ls -la
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 it it 4096 2010-02-10 14:44 .
drwxr-xr-x 51 it it 4096 2010-02-10 11:41 ..
drwxrwxrwx 3 it it 4096 2010-02-09 13:00 c
-rwxrwxrwx 1 it it 92 2010-02-09 14:50 dosbox.conf
drwxr-xr-x 1 it it 0 2008-01-11 13:20 n
it@user:~/dos$

When it's not mounted, it's okay:

it@user:~/dos$ sudo umount n/
it@user:~/dos$ ls -la
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 4 it it 4096 2010-02-10 14:44 .
drwxr-xr-x 51 it it 4096 2010-02-10 11:41 ..
drwxrwxrwx 3 it it 4096 2010-02-09 13:00 c
-rwxrwxrwx 1 it it 92 2010-02-09 14:50 dosbox.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 it it 4096 2010-02-09 13:57 n
it@user:~/dos$

that changetime of 1940 is a bit odd as well
I am not sure how to proceed from here. Are you comfortable with compiling ?

No problem, just tell me what have to do. Any source?

http://dosbox.linuxsecured.net/dosboxcvs.tgz

You need the development version of libSDL installed (sudo apt-get install build-essential libsdl-dev)
In dosbox/src/misc/cross.cpp
at the bottom
there are 2 functions
read_directory_next
read_directory_first
Try checking the results in there. (to see if they are reached. if stat succeeds)
you can use LOG_MSG as print function. it is identical to printf
LOG_MSG("entering");
LOG_MSG("passed stat");
LOG_MSG("buffer contains %s",buffer);
etc

solution?

Did you do what Qbix asked to do? If so why don't you post the results
rather than replying in every samba-related thread? If not, why are
you posting at all?