[linux-cifs-client] sym/hardlink error

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:40:32PM -0600, Scott Barker wrote:
> Samba 3.0.6 does indeed fix the problem with links.
> 
> However, it is breaking all file access by prepending some kind of
> binary header to every file accessed across the share. This results in
> being able to manipulate files in the directory tree, but being unable
> to actually read the files properly.
> 
> Has anyone seen this behaviour? Is there a fix?
> 
> Note that this isn't only affecting CIFS mounts - my Windows clients
> can no longer access files at all (but can browse shares/directories).

No, that's a new one on me. Do you have any logs ? The best
way to show this would be an attempt by a Windows cmd.exe
shell to type a plain text file with known contents. What
do you see on the screen ?

Jeremy.