Samba on AIX

Scott Prather sprather at austin.ibm.com
Mon Apr 23 15:37:31 GMT 2001


I can reproduce the problem in my lab on AIX and Linux (this is not AIX specific).  Looking at the network trace, the client is does not read the file from the server the second time, it only requests a few bytes from the file (at what was the previous end of the file.)

This problem does not occur on an NT server, it may be because Samba returns not supported for the IOCTL commands NT tries on the file when it tries to open it.

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Scott Prather
MCSE, MCP+I
AIX PC Interoperability
sprather at austin.ibm.com


> 
> From: Bernie Ledwick <bl at man.fwltech.com>
> To: "'samba at lists.samba.org'" <samba at va.samba.org>
> Subject: Samba on AIX
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> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 11:02:03 +0100
> 
> I am running Samba v2.0.7 on AIX 4.3.3 and accessing from MS-Windows 98 and
> experience the following behaviour:
> 
> 1. Create new text file on AIX server.
> 2. View this file on PC
> 3. Close file on PC
> 4. Change file on AIX server.
> 5. View file on PC and the changes made in step 4 are not there.
> 
> Restarting Samba cures the problem, but this isn't really practical. I first
> noticed this behaviour several years ago using PC-NFS against AIX, so I
> guess this is an AIX issue, but not one that IBM would be willing to
> investigate. 
> 
> Any ideas as to how I go about investigating and/or curing this problem?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bernie Ledwick
> Principal Consultant
> 
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