[Samba] FlashMX creates BAD .swf file on Samba

[ramon buckland]

Hi peoples,

I have a Samba Server that has had the same config for over 10 months now
(read: never had a problem).

Just today, I thought, let's Play with Flash MX, so download I did.
Start playing around, and went to test my first movie and it came up blank.

Not a flash GURU that I am, I was stumped. Anyway. Saved the flash file
to my local C:\ (Oh did I mention the WS is Win2k ;) .. and then
tested the Flash Movie, and no problems.

Tech Details:

	In Flash, when you 'Test a Movie'
	it creates the .swf export in the same folder.

	The Share I am working from is

	[htdocs]
	        path = /var/www/html
	        writable = yes
	        create mode = 664
	        directory mode = 775
	        force group = www
	        valid users = @www
	        delete readonly = yes

Samba version is
	Version 2.2.1a

As I said, nothing has changed and I have only seen this behaviour now with
exported Flash MOvies.

What else do I know:

	Testing a Movie in Flash is the same as Exporting the final product, (it
creates the same files)

	So:
		I Export to Movie on the samba server
	and
		I Export to Movie on my Local Workstation
		(and tried a Networked Win2k Prof box also)

	The Export to the Samba server creates a bad .swf.
	It's 41k and the good working one (on the Win2k boxes	is 12k)

erm.. Where to from here.

	.swf files are generally served from a Browser... so

	I copied a Working version (and a non-working version courtesy of Samba)
	to the Local IIS Server. Expected result. The working one, worked,
	the non-working .. you get the idea.

	So I copied the two files to the Apache Server via Samba
	and browsed to them there... same result.

	A Flash movie created by saving to Samba, makes a BAD swf file.
	A Flash movie created by saving to Win32 box makes a normal good movie.

The box Samba is on has ample free space available on all mounted partitions.

So .. where do I look,   the logs below show nothing amazing.

It's weird,
does anybody have some suggestions on how to debug this problem (before I
upgrade Samba)

This is the Whole Session of Flash MX, exporting (deleting an old flash movie
and creating a
new one, and then opening it and the closing it)
---------------------------------------------------------
[2002/07/06 02:53:13, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(213)
  ramon.buckland opened file dev/quasedi/_dev/editor_2.swf read=Yes write=No
(numopen=1)
[2002/07/06 02:53:13, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(203)
  ramon.buckland closed file dev/quasedi/_dev/editor_2.swf (numopen=0)
[2002/07/06 02:53:13, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(213)
  ramon.buckland opened file dev/quasedi/_dev/editor_2.swf read=Yes write=No
(numopen=1)
[2002/07/06 02:53:13, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(203)
  ramon.buckland closed file dev/quasedi/_dev/editor_2.swf (numopen=0)
[2002/07/06 02:53:13, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(213)
  ramon.buckland opened file dev/quasedi/_dev/editor_2.swf read=Yes write=Yes
(numopen=1)
[2002/07/06 02:53:15, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(203)
  ramon.buckland closed file dev/quasedi/_dev/editor_2.swf (numopen=0)
[2002/07/06 02:53:15, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(213)
  ramon.buckland opened file dev/quasedi/_dev/editor_2.swf read=Yes write=No
(numopen=1)
[2002/07/06 02:53:15, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(203)
  ramon.buckland closed file dev/quasedi/_dev/editor_2.swf (numopen=0)
[2002/07/06 02:53:15, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(213)
  ramon.buckland opened file dev/quasedi/_dev/editor_2.swf read=Yes write=No
(numopen=1)
[2002/07/06 02:53:15, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(203)
  ramon.buckland closed file dev/quasedi/_dev/editor_2.swf (numopen=0)
[2002/07/06 02:53:15, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(213)
  ramon.buckland opened file dev/quasedi/_dev/editor_2.swf read=Yes write=No
(numopen=1)
[2002/07/06 02:53:15, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(203)
  ramon.buckland closed file dev/quasedi/_dev/editor_2.swf (numopen=0)
[2002/07/06 02:53:15, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(213)
  ramon.buckland opened file dev/quasedi/_dev/editor_2.swf read=Yes write=No
(numopen=1)
[2002/07/06 02:53:15, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(203)
  ramon.buckland closed file dev/quasedi/_dev/editor_2.swf (numopen=0)
[2002/07/06 02:53:15, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(213)
  ramon.buckland opened file dev/quasedi/_dev/editor_2.swf read=Yes write=No
(numopen=1)
[2002/07/06 02:53:15, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(203)
  ramon.buckland closed file dev/quasedi/_dev/editor_2.swf (numopen=0)
[2002/07/06 02:53:15, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(213)
  ramon.buckland opened file dev/quasedi/_dev/editor_2.swf read=Yes write=No
(numopen=1)
[2002/07/06 02:53:21, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(203)
  ramon.buckland closed file dev/quasedi/_dev/editor_2.swf (numopen=0)
---------------------------------------------------------

Cheers


ramon    buckland
ramon at thebuckland.com