[linux-cifs-client] Re: SAMBA no longer works (FC5 to FC5): READ op.

[Steve French]

> Everything worked (except when SAMBA became CIFS, anonymous logons
> stopped working), it was a read only share.
Can you explain this more?  Do you mean mounts with an empty userid:
	userid=""
or
	guest  
which simply means that we don't prompt for the password, but use the userid 
specified on the mount (or the default).

Earlier (presumably with smbfs) how were you specifying anonymous?



> Starting from a few days ago, it no longer works. I can still get
> directory listings, mount the "shared drive", etc, however, when I
> actually read the file (with cat, wc, mplayer etc) I get a strange
> "permission denied" error. That happens even though the perms are all
> good looking, I still cannot read. I think that I can open the file
> descriptor for reading, but the actual read operation fails. 
It looks like a known server bug introduced with Samba 3.0.23a and then
fixed by Samba 3.0.23c (perhaps even earlier). The following e.g. should
be ok:

http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/i386/samba-3.0.23c-1.fc5.i386.rpm

> After a while of frustration, I ditched SAMBA entirely and switched to
> NFS, but I would like to know just what could have happened?
>
>(we have one dinky MS Windows computer at home, that we do not run a
>lot, but it would be nice to have samba available, though it is not
> hugely important)

Lots of reasons to stay with cifs->Samba  :)
Post again if you run into problems with the updated Samba server.