[Samba] Re: Samba and NUL characters

[Matteo D'Amato]

I've tried CIFS VFS with the following config in my fstab

//cdn-mtl-ms/Logs   /mnt/logs    cifs  username=user,password=pass 0 0

And I still have the same problem. As for kernel versions, the working
one uses "linux-2.4.21-20.EL" and the non-working one uses
"linux-2.6.9-11.EL". Does this have anything to do with "oplock" being
enabled in the kernel? I've read some posts mentioning this, but I'm not
sure how to check if it is enabled or how to enable it. Thanks

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Matteo D'Amato
Manager, Systems Applications & Development
Smartbox Equipment Inc



-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Bartlett [mailto:abartlet at samba.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 8:06 PM
To: Matteo D'Amato
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Re: Samba and NUL characters

On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 10:00 -0500, Matteo D'Amato wrote:
> Hi,
> 	We have a Windows NT 4 SP5 sharing a read-only share of logs
that are 
> constantly being written to and a Linux box running CentOS release 4.2

> (Final) that mounts this share. The share in mounted using the 
> following command:
> 
> smbmount //cdn-mtl-ms/Logs /mnt/logs -o
> sockopt=SO_KEEPALIVE,username=user,password=pass,ro,uid=503,gid=503
> 
> smbmount -v shows --> Version 3.0.10-1.4E.2

The critical thing is the kernel version, not the smbmount version.  

> We notice a problem when we try do a tail -f on a file through the 
> share. It seems that part of the lines gets replaced by ^@ or NUL 
> characters. We only see this when we redirect that tail -f output to a

> file since NUL in non printable, the terminal just shows truncated 
> lines. This is working perfectly on another Linux box running Red Hat 
> Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 3) with version 
> 3.0.6-2.3E of samba. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this 
> issue. Thanks

You should look into the CIFS VFS, which is a maintained filesystem, and
provides better semantics to servers such as NT.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
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Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net