[Samba] strange DOS-Error 58

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Jul 21 17:32:26 GMT 2004


On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:18:25AM +0200, Ulf Dettmer wrote:
> Hi,
> based on Bart Lagerweij's ( www.nu2.nu ) bootdisk, I've created a small 
> DOS system that users can start by booting from network ( PXE ). The 
> system is configured to map a network drive from a Suse 9.0 Pro / Samba 
> server with various tools on it. The connection is anonymous.
> Until recently everything worked fine but suddenly there are strange 
> errors:
> When I try to launch an EXE from that share I get "Access denied". After 
> that I can no longer work with that share. No matter what I do ( e.g. 
> 'dir' ) the result is 'Extended Error 58'. Also, when I copy an EXE from 
> the share to the bootdisk's ramdrive, the file seems to get broken - the 
> computer hangs up as soon as I launch it from the ramdrive.
> Apart from starting programs I can do almost everything on the network 
> drive, e.g. 'type' a text file or execute all other kinds DOS commands.
> This problem does not occur at all when I access the same share from a 
> WinXP box.
> I'm pretty sure the only change in the whole system was an upgrade from 
> Samba 3.0.4 to 3.0.5RC1 . That was because of a printing problem. For 
> this reason I would not want to downgrade back to Samba 3.0.4.
> You will find the usual bunch of logs and conf's below. Thanks in 
> advance for any help you can give !
> Regards, Ulf

Can you give me an image of that system so I can test this ?
I don't want the network boot, but a floppy boot so I can
test on vmware.

Thanks,

	Jeremy.


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