[Samba] cannot access files after update samba 3.0.5 -> 3.0.6 (Redhat 6.2)

[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 12:25:53PM +0200, Wolfgang Kretzschmar wrote:
> Redhat 6.2
> kernel 2.2.14-12
> Samba 3.0.6
> compiled with ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/samba 
> --localstatedir=/var/log/samba --with-lockdir=/var/lock/samba 
> --with-privatedir=/etc/rc-abas.d --with-configdir=/etc/rc-abas.d 
> --enable-debug
> 
> 
> I can list directories and write files on a samba share but cannot read 
> files. This happens with Windows XP client or smbclient. After downgrading 
> to 3.0.5 samba works fine again.
> 
> It seems to be a Redhat 6.2 problem. On a second computer with Redhat 9 
> this problem does not occur.
> 
> This line is written in log.smbd:
> 
> [2004/08/27 18:29:01, 0] smbd/reply.c:send_file_readX(2122)
>   send_file_readX: sendfile failed for file wk/xx (Das Argument ist 
>   ungültig). Terminating
> 
> ("Das Argument ist ungültig" --> "invalid argument")

Ah - sendfile() is now the default in Samba 3.0.6. It seems that
RedHat 6.2 has sendfile, but a different version of the args we
use. Simply turn off sendfile in the smb.conf for this system.

Jeremy.