Problems compiling smbmount etc

[Richard Sharpe]

>Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 23:17:37 +0930
>From: Mark Williams <hirm at chariot.net.au>
>Subject: Ooppps.... Sorry about the HTML.... Here's the email again.
>To: Richard Sharpe <sharpe at samba.org>
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>Since ive seen you around on the SA Mailing list and your a part of the
>samba team, I though you might be able to help me with a few of my samba
>problems.
>
>1/
>I think I found something overlooked in the samba source (nttrans.c and
>open.c). When NT5 tries to open a directory in the samba log it says samba
>is trying to open a file. I gather this is actually a NT5 problem rather
>than a samba problem, but I have found that the nttrans.c source overlooks
>this error and continues trying to open the dir as a file anyway.
>I have made a very sloppy fix for this problem which seems to have worked.
>If you want more particulars please ask.
>
>2/
>I have the source in tarball and SRPM (ver 2.0.4b). When I try and make the
>source from either package, I find that smbmount and smbmnt are not compiled
>(smbclient is compiled though).
>I try "make bin/smbmnt" and then it compiles smbmnt fine. But when I try
>"make bin/smbmount" I get a lot of code errors (10 warnings to be precise).
>Consequently, smbmount is not made.
>I have not looked at the code but I thought i should point these errors out
>(BTW... im using RH6.0, 2.2.9, and PGCC).
>Anything I can do for a "quick fix"?
>
>3/
>I have found that NT5 (Windows2000 build 2031) makes lots of
>"NT_TRANS_IOCTL" calls (which in 2.0.4b isnt implemented).
>Becuse of this, I get very large NT5 delays (and lockups). It looks like it
>will need to be implemented in the next version of samba, for samba to
>remain compatible with NT5.
>
>Thanks for reading my ramble,
> Mark Williams
>
>

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com, NS Computer Software and Services P/L,
Samba (Team member www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member www.zing.org)
Co-author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours