2.5.11 and smbfs

2.5.11 and smbfs

[Scott A. Sibert]

I don't know if anyone's mentioned this (I tried searching through the 
recent list archives).  I have 2.5.11 compiled on a dual P3/800 with 
preempt enabled.  smbfs and 3c905c are compiled into the kernel (not 
modules).  It has 1gb memory and I have high memory (4gb) compiled.

I can mount other samba shares fine (ie. Samba-2.2.2 from OSX 10.1.4 and 
Samba-2.2.2 from Tru64 5.1) and the directories look fine.  When I mount 
a share from a Windows 2000 server I only get the first letter of the 
entry in the shared folder which, of course, makes no sense and 
generates errors when just trying to get an "ls" of the share.  The 
Win2K servers are both regular server and Adv Server, both with SP2 and 
the latest patches.  The linux machine is running RedHat 7.2 with almost 
all of the latest updates and 2.5.11 compiled.

Please let me know if there is any other information needed or if you 
want me to try something.  (I will try to respond quickly.)

--Scott

Re: 2.5.11 and smbfs

[vt]

the same problem here (2.5.12+fb patch).

dmesg says:

smb_retry: successful, new pid=427, generation=2
smb_request: result -104, setting invalid
smb_retry: successful, new pid=430, generation=2
smb_proc_readdir_long: name=\, result=-2, rcls=1, err=2

Re: 2.5.11 and smbfs

[Urban Widmark]

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Scott A. Sibert wrote:

> I can mount other samba shares fine (ie. Samba-2.2.2 from OSX 10.1.4 and 
> Samba-2.2.2 from Tru64 5.1) and the directories look fine.  When I mount 
> a share from a Windows 2000 server I only get the first letter of the 
> entry in the shared folder which, of course, makes no sense and 
> generates errors when just trying to get an "ls" of the share.  The 
> Win2K servers are both regular server and Adv Server, both with SP2 and 
> the latest patches.  The linux machine is running RedHat 7.2 with almost 
> all of the latest updates and 2.5.11 compiled.

The server is returning unicode filenames but smbfs isn't expecting them.

You don't say which samba version your smbmount is from, but I'm guessing
2.2.1/2.2.2. They always negotiate unicode support without knowing if
smbfs supports it or not, which is a bug.

With smbfs unicode support in 2.5 this started to matter for various
reasons. I have thought about "autodetection" and maybe that will be
necessary anyway.

For now, upgrading samba to 2.2.3a should fix this. Let me know if it
doesn't.

/Urban

Re: 2.5.11 and smbfs

[Denis Vlasenko]

On 30 April 2002 17:40, Scott A. Sibert wrote:
> I don't know if anyone's mentioned this (I tried searching through the
> recent list archives).  I have 2.5.11 compiled on a dual P3/800 with
> preempt enabled.  smbfs and 3c905c are compiled into the kernel (not
> modules).  It has 1gb memory and I have high memory (4gb) compiled.
>
> I can mount other samba shares fine (ie. Samba-2.2.2 from OSX 10.1.4 and
> Samba-2.2.2 from Tru64 5.1) and the directories look fine.  When I mount
> a share from a Windows 2000 server I only get the first letter of the
> entry in the shared folder which, of course, makes no sense and
> generates errors when just trying to get an "ls" of the share.  The
> Win2K servers are both regular server and Adv Server, both with SP2 and
> the latest patches.  The linux machine is running RedHat 7.2 with almost
> all of the latest updates and 2.5.11 compiled.

Let's try to isolate the cause. Does 2.4 kernel fail too?
--
vda

Re: 2.5.11 and smbfs

[Scott A. Sibert]

Hi all.

Kernel 2.4.18 smbfs worked, 2.4.19-pre8 smbfs worked (although 
fs/ufs/super.c had some missing commas), 2.5.11 smbfs didn't work.  The 
RedHat 7.2 had samba-2.2.1a-4 so I pulled down samba-2.2.3a-4 from the 
skipjack beta and compiled it under kernel 2.5.11 and it mounts windows 
shares correctly.  I'm in the process of going to 2.5.13 but I'm going 
to stick with the 2.2.3a-4 samba.

Thanks for all of your help.

--Scott

Urban Widmark wrote:

>On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Scott A. Sibert wrote:
>
>>I can mount other samba shares fine (ie. Samba-2.2.2 from OSX 10.1.4 and 
>>Samba-2.2.2 from Tru64 5.1) and the directories look fine.  When I mount 
>>a share from a Windows 2000 server I only get the first letter of the 
>>entry in the shared folder which, of course, makes no sense and 
>>generates errors when just trying to get an "ls" of the share.  The 
>>Win2K servers are both regular server and Adv Server, both with SP2 and 
>>the latest patches.  The linux machine is running RedHat 7.2 with almost 
>>all of the latest updates and 2.5.11 compiled.
>>
>
>The server is returning unicode filenames but smbfs isn't expecting them.
>
>You don't say which samba version your smbmount is from, but I'm guessing
>2.2.1/2.2.2. They always negotiate unicode support without knowing if
>smbfs supports it or not, which is a bug.
>
>With smbfs unicode support in 2.5 this started to matter for various
>reasons. I have thought about "autodetection" and maybe that will be
>necessary anyway.
>
>For now, upgrading samba to 2.2.3a should fix this. Let me know if it
>doesn't.
>
>/Urban
>
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