call_nt_transact_ioctl Currently not implemented

[Jeremy Allison]

> "King, Michael A." wrote:
> 
> I have seen several notices that this is an ongoing issue (the first notices started in 1999 with indications in early 2000 that it was being addressed). Has there been any progress on the infamous
> 
> smbd/nttrans.c:call_nt_transact_ioctl(2516)
>   call_nt_transact_ioctl: Currently not implemented.
> 
> problem? I've also seen the number 2401 instead of 2516.
> Can someone please at least respond how we can help fix the problem ourselves (where to start might be nice) if you decide _not_ to take any action?
> 
> Here's my particulars.
> From the logs:
> [2000/11/30 09:49:12, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(550)
>   ***** (***.***.***.***) connect to service awardhq as user *** (uid=500, gid=500) (pid 30102)
> [2000/11/30 10:44:37, 0] smbd/nttrans.c:call_nt_transact_ioctl(2516)
>   call_nt_transact_ioctl: Currently not implemented.
> 
> uname -a: Linux ***** 2.2.14-5.0smp #1 SMP Tue Mar 7 21:01:40 EST 2000 i686 unknown
> smbd -V: Version 2.0.7
> nmbd -V: Version 2.0.7
> rpm -a -q | grep samba: samba-common-2.0.7-4 samba-client-2.0.7-4 samba-2.0.7-4
> ls -l samba*:
> -rw-rw-r-- 4312642 Oct 18 11:54 samba-2.0.7-4.i386.rpm
> -rw-rw-r-- 881787 Oct 18 12:20 samba-client-2.0.7-4.i386.rpm
> -rw-rw-r-- 710168 Oct 18 12:16 samba-common-2.0.7-4.i386.rpm
> 
> I was attempting to check something into VisualSourceSafe that was on a Samba Share.
> I suspect it was trying to muck with the permissions to make the file read-only.
> The checkout on this file worked fine.

Do you have any other proof that ignoring this SMB (which
is all the message is saying) is causing problems ? Why do
you think this is so ?

Changing permissions to make a file read only would not
be done via an NTioctl, but via either a NTSetSecurityDescriptor
or SetFileAttributes - do you see this call failing ?

Followups redirected to samba-technical.

Regards,

	Jeremy Allison,
	Samba Team.

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