[Samba] Free space/capacity displayed as garbage...

Marc Gregoire samba at nuonsoft.com
Tue Oct 4 17:54:43 GMT 2005


Anyone?
Is there something else that I can do to help pinpoint the problem?

Best  Wishes,
Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-bounces+samba=nuonsoft.com at lists.samba.org 
> [mailto:samba-bounces+samba=nuonsoft.com at lists.samba.org] On 
> Behalf Of Marc Gregoire
> Sent: zaterdag 1 oktober 2005 14:00
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Cc: 'Gerald (Jerry) Carter'
> Subject: RE: [Samba] Free space/capacity displayed as garbage...
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gerald (Jerry) Carter [mailto:jerry at samba.org]
> > 
> > Marc Gregoire wrote:
> > 
> > >> I'm having some strange problems with Samba.
> > >> I have shared a linux folder on my samba and have mapped it to a 
> > >> drive letter in Windows XP (I also tried with Windows 2000).
> > >> When I right click my mapped drive and click on 
> properties to view 
> > >> the free space and capacity, I get all garbage as can be 
> seen from 
> > >> the screenshot at:
> > >> http://www.nuonsoft.com/temp/samba_free_space.jpg
> > >> I'm running the latest version 3.0.20 and it is running on
> > AlphaCore
> > >> which is Fedora Core 3 for the Alpha (64 bit platform). It
> > compiled
> > >> without problems with gcc 3.4.3.
> > >> Because of this issue, I'm unable to use my samba network
> > share from
> > >> programs that check the freespace before doing 
> something, like for 
> > >> example creating a cd image.
> > 
> > Marc,
> > 
> > Please try the just release 3.0.20a since there were some 64-bit 
> > compile issues fixed in it.  Also, Can you very that Samba has been 
> > built with LFS ?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you for the response.
> I have tried version 3.0.20a, but I get the same problems.
> During configure, I get the following message:
>   checking for LFS support... yes
> So I suppose LFS is being used.
> After installing the new version I have rebooted the system 
> to make sure, but same problem.
> I have also saved the full "make" output (see attachment) 
> which shows some pointer truncation warnings. Perhaps those 
> are causing my problems?
> 
> 
> Best Wishes,
> Marc
> --
> Marc Gregoire
> NuonSoft
> Website: http://www.nuonsoft.com
> 



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