odd error between vfat and samba

[Timothy Ball]

[Note please Cc: timball at tux.org as I am not on the samba mailing
list... but if this problem persists I think I may end up signing up]

Well I do not have quota installed on the machine (and it's not enabled
in the kernel) but I did what you suggested and tryed to create and
delte files just on the regular fs as a user... it works great. (the
directory in question is my /mnt/mp3s directory and has persmissions
like this:

drwxrwsr-x   23 smbuser  audio        4096 Apr 24 19:11 /mnt/mp3s

/mnt/mp3s is vfat partition that I've mounted w/ the appropriate uid,
gid, sgid, and umask=002, noexec options. As long as a user is in the "audio"
group he/she should be able to create a file in /mnt/mp3s with 664
permissions. (I figure this is the "correct" unix way of it all.) 

I'm still in the dark (though I'm beginning to suspect vfat is the
culprit, but I'm unsure of how to debug it.)

--timball

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 06:15:40PM -0400, MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1) wrote:
> It almost sounds like a hard and soft quotas limit on the linux side - any
> chance that you have quotas enabled on the fs that you are sharing????  Try
> the following;
> after you have connected to the share in question from your windows machine,
> use smbstatus to take a look at the actual linux user that you are connected
> as.
> THEN login to your linux server AS the same user, and try to create a file >
> 800kb on that filesystem that you were accessing from windows.  If you CAN,
> then you have a good suspicion the problem is with the windows access to the
> linux fs via samba.  If you CAN't, then you can start poking around about
> quotas, etc for that user from the linux side.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Setup:
> Samba 2.0.7 (from debian sid), Linux 2.4.3-XFS, Window95, Windows98
> 
> Problem:
> I have a linux machine that I occationally duel boot and I wanted to be
> able to share my mp3s directory to my roomate via samba. I figured I'd
> just make a partition vfat and have both linux and windows export that
> directory... but under linux there seems to be an odd issue w/ creating
> a file larger than 800K on the samba share. 

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