[Samba] Interesting problem/bug

[Andrew Bartlett]

"Peter J. Milanese" wrote:
> 
> Greetings:
> 
> I've recently introduced Linux Kernel 2.5.7 to
> my Redhat box, which is running Samba2.2.3a
> 
> Service runs fine outgoing.
> 
> When I smbmount, I get this:
> 
> bash-2.04$ ls
> 1  b  d  m  M  r  r  R  R  s  w
> 
> Every first character of the directory contents...
> 
> Any clues on this?

What is the server?  The problem is (almost certainly) incorrect
negotiation of unicode - either the client (smbmount in this case, as it
handles the actuall connection) or the server is incorrectly sending
only unicode - the smbfs code in the kernel can't yet cope with this -
and simply proceses them as ascii strings.

Andrew Bartlett

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