[Samba] cannot access files, directory browsing fine ...

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 03:22:35PM -0400, Szymon Machajewski wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I've just spent some time figuring out why on my RedHat ES server samba
> allowed me to connect, browse directories, but as soon as .exe was in
> the dir it would freeze.
> I couldn't open text files or anything else.
> 
> It turns out that the Redhat kernel does not play well with 'sendfile'
> functionality.
> 
> so I added:
> 
> use sendfile = no
> 
> and I'm back in the game.

What kernel version are you using ? It's starting to look like sendfile
may be broken on 2.4.x kernels.

Jeremy.