From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Suresh Jayaraman Subject: Re: Problems with CVS on CIFS since kernel 2.6.30 Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:10:20 +0530 Message-ID: <4C56F4F4.5010903@suse.de> References: <4C56DBDD.4070501@suse.de> <4C56E564.3020508@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: linux-cifs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jon Bramley Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-cifs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: On 08/02/2010 09:26 PM, Jon Bramley wrote: > On 2 August 2010 16:33, Suresh Jayaraman wrote: >> If upgrading is not feasible, could you try patching Samba server wi= th >> this patch (relatively very less risk): >> =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BDhttp://www.mail-archive.com/samba-cvs-w/Ol4EcudpnDHl7Qnj/AWg@public.gmane.org= =2Eorg/msg55843.html >> >> I think that should help resolving the bug with posix opens against >> older server. >> >>>>> strange thing, is that some of my colleagues run Ubuntu 10.04, wh= ich >>>>> uses the 2.6.32 kernel, and they can use the share without proble= m. >>> >>>> What is the server version in this case? >>> >>> Exactly the same server that I'm connecting to (3.0.28a). >> >> Strange.. Any idea whether the Ubuntu kernel is the released 2.6.32 >> kernel or any -rc version of 2.6.32? >=20 > Just checked on a colleagues machine, and uname -r reports 2.6.32-24-= generic >=20 > Also checked the dmesg on the Ubuntu 10.04 box: >=20 > The exact same errors that I get appear, which leads me to believe > that this in itself is not the cause of my issue. >=20 > Any other ideas to debug further? >=20 Perhaps, try enabling debugging as mentioned in the url below before yo= u do the operation (for both the clients) and post http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_troubleshooting But, I still think the real problem is the server-side one and perhaps the Ubuntu client has just got lucky in this case.. Thanks, --=20 Suresh Jayaraman