[Samba] dfree is broken on this system

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Jun 10 18:06:39 UTC 2016


On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 01:44:51PM -0400, Thomas Schulz wrote:
> I think that I know what is going on.
> 
> At first I was getting bad numbers from the DEBUG statement. It turns
> out that %u does not work with an unsigned 64 bit integer. So instead of
> passing (*dsize) I had to pass (unsigned int)*dsize. Now I am getting
> good numbers.
> 
> The problem only occures with Windows XP machines. We have our users
> automounted on /home/users. We have /home/users shared as share users.
> If a user maps a network drive as \\machine\user then all is good.
> On Windows XP, if a user maps a network drive as \\machine\users\user
> then it looks like Windows XP tries to find the size of \\machine\users
> which has no size as it is not a disk. Windows 7 does not have this
> problem. I expect that Windows 7 instead tries to get the size of
> \\machine\users\user which is a disk and everything works.
> 
> So this error message is not a problem with Samba and I will just
> ignore it.

Thanks for tracking it down and letting us know Tom !



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