Anyone using SCO 3.2v4.2 with Samba 1.9.18p3??

[Tom Pinkl]

Kevin W. Reed <soldo at telesys.tnet.com> wrote:
> 
> SCO Unix 3.2v4.2
> Samba 1.9.18p3
> 
> Problem with I_STR/SIOCGIFCONF
> 
> I haven't a clue what is wrong here...
> 
> We compiled samba 1.9.18p3 using GCC and everything is working pretty
> much okay.  However, when we start the nmbd server we get an error
> message:
> 
[snip]
> > I_STR/SIOCGIFCONF: Invalid argument           <<<<<<<<=======ERROR IS HERE
> 
> This SCO platform has all the relevent patches installed (that I know about)
> but apparently there is a problem with this type of call or it is formatted
> incorrectly.
> 
> Looking at the source code, it looks like:
> 
> [interfaces.c]
> 
[snip]
> 
> My guess is that it isn't being passed the correct information... There
> is an SCO5 section in the source file too, but this is not an SCO5 platform.
> 
> If you are using SCO 3.2v4.2 with this version of Samba, please let me
> know how you got around this.... Thanks...
> 

I'm running SCO 3.2v4.2 with the prior version of Samba (1.9.18p2).  
I saw this error when running smbclient.  

I sent a note regarding this issue to samba-bugs back when 1.9.18p1 
came out.  I don't know what the "proper" fix would be, but I 
commented out the "#define USE_IFREQ" at approximately line 734 of 
includes.h.  When the code is recompiled, the correct code block 
within interfaces.c will be selected for SCO 3.2v4.2.

Hope this helps.
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