[svlug] SMB smb_proc_readdir_long errors?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Tue Sep 30 11:57:44 GMT 2003


On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 14:15, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> OK,
> 
> I have redirected this to Samba Technical. Steve French, the author of the 
> Linux 2.5/2.5 smbfs will most likely be interested in this.

Steve's project is separate - smbfs still exists in Linux 2.5/2.6, but
the 'cifsvfs' is also present. 

> For Samba-technical,  J C Lawrence <claw at kanga.nu> said that sometimes, 
> after mounting a Win2K3 (I think) file system, he gets the error shown 
> below, but not always.
> 
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, J C Lawrence wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 18:12:55 -0700 (PDT) 
> > Richard Sharpe <rsharpe at richardsharpe.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, J C Lawrence wrote:
> > 
> > >> Sep 29 19:31:14 under kernel: smb_proc_readdir_long: error=-2, >>
> > >> breaking
> > 
> > > Can we have a capture of the behavior?
> > 
> > Mind defining "capture"?  Sometimes I get files, sometimes I don't.
> > When I do I get everything I expect.  When I don't I get nothing.
> > There's no variation there.
> 
> OK, I meant a network capture with Ethereal or tcpdump, taken from either 
> the client (Linux) or the server.
> 
> > > Also, a bit more info? Like, what version of smbfs? Kernel version?
> > 
> > kernel: 2.6.0-test6
> > smbfs: 3.0.0
> 
> OK, so this says it is the new version of smbfs. Hopefully, Steve will 
> chime in with some further debugging suggestions of his own.

No, it just means it's using the 3.0.0 user-space helper. 

> Regards
> -----
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