[linux-cifs-client] Extrange behavior, mounted dir files can be writed but not modified... sometimes

rah raul.medrano at inspectorate.es
Mon Dec 22 14:10:58 GMT 2008


Thank you very much.

It solved the problem instantly.

Regards;



Jeff Layton-2 wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:51:10 -0800 (PST)
> rah <raul.medrano at inspectorate.es> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I'm using a cifs mounted linux folder. Since the begining it worked fine,
>> but
>> lately some applications cannot modify files.
>> For example:
>> gimp or scite opens a png or text file but when saving only can do it
>> using
>> a different name, else it says "no such directory" or "not a directory"
>> 
>> But if I open the same file text with vim or gedit it behaves right and
>> can
>> be saved with the same name.
>> 
>> Server is debian 2.6.8-3-k7 kernel and samba 3.0.24-6
>> Client is debian 2.6.26-1-amd64 kernel and samba 3.2.5-2
>> Other clients works well: Windows and linux (older)
>> 
>> The only thing changed lately were kernel and packages upgrades.
>> 
>> I've tried to get more info but samba and system logs doesn't show
>> anything
>> about this or at least I wasn't able to find it.
>> 
>> Please advice.
>> 
>> Thanks
> 
> Possibly problems with the DFS code? IIRC, samba 3.0.24 was broken wrt to
> some DFS code. If you're not actually using DFS referrals, you may want to
> try disabling DFS on the server. See the "host msdfs" option for smb.conf.
> 
> With very recent kernels, you can also try mounting with "nodfs" but
> that's
> probably not in your client's kernel.
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>
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