[Samba] Text File Corruption Writing from Windows to Linux NFS Share.

[shunter at ddci.com]

I am running a Windows 2003 Server with Microsoft Services for UNIX (SFU) 
installed which is serving NFS shares to a Redhat Enterprise Workstation 
v5 Linux machine which is running Samba 3.0.33-3.7.el5.  There is also a 
Solaris 5.6 workstation serving NFS shares.  All of these are mounted on 
the RHEL machine and are visible to Samba.  I can read and copy anything 
from any share using Windows Explorer to my Windows XP Pro machine.  I can 
copy to and/or write anything I want on the Solaris shares.  If I attempt 
to write a PDF file to any of the SFU shares, the write fails with a 
Windows message that either the file is busy (which it is not) or the 
share does not have write permissions (which it does).  If I attempt to 
copy a text file to this same share using Windows Explorer, the copy 
succeeds.  However the contents of the file is lost leaving only a stream 
of null characters.  If I attempt to edit a text file on any of the SFU 
shares, the contents of the file is replaced by a bunch of null 
characters.  Yet, if I use Cygwin on the same XP Pro machine to copy the 
same text file from the same Windows directory to the same SFU share via 
Samba, the copy works just fine.

Do SFU shares need to be mounted with some "special" switch on the RHEL 
machine for Samba to be able to write to them?  Is there some obscure 
Samba configuration switch that I've missed?

Any help that might point me in the right direction would be appreciated. 
Thank you.

Stephen Hunter
Systems Administrator
DDC-I, Inc.
shunter at ddci.com


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