Not really out of disk space problem (was Re: deafening silence...)

[John E. Malmberg]

Tim Oakley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Since i posted a problem last friday,  the silence has been deafening. 
> Has no one else encountered the problem i described ?

I saw reports of it intermittantly a long time ago with a Microsoft NT 
Server.

> I include the text of my original message below:
> 
> best regards
> 
> ******************************
> I have a perplexing problem which i will try to explain simply....
> 
> I was running Samba2.2.7a (2nd release) on a vms7.2-2 machine.
> Everything worked fine.
> 
> I updated the server to vms7.3-1 and installed the 'vms731_update_v1' &
> 'vms731_rms_v4' eco's.
> 
> I reinstalled Samba2.2.7a on the updated system to ensure the 'link.com'
> would use the newly installed RTLs.
> 
> All was OK except for one user (USER1) whose pc app no longer worked.
> The app basically takes a text file from a samba share and sends it down
> a modem line to an automated banking service. The app failed saying that
> there was insufficient space on the samba share drive, which was not
> true. I think the app tries to create a temporary  file on the samba share.

I have not worked directly with SAMBA for a while, but sometimes such 
problems are caused by applications seeing more than 2 GB free, or some 
number like that.

A temporary workaround for that problem is to put a big file on the 
share so that the free space appears smaller, until an updated 
application is available.


To further diagnose this problem would either require a packet sniffer 
trace or a debug log, and if it is not obvious from that, would require 
some assistance from someone familiar with the code.


-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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