So, you're telling me this is a feature? Since it's been working fine on previous versions of smbd, I take it that this is a bug that's been fixed?
-charlie * *FROM Chris Weiss* *cweiss at gmail.com <samba%40lists.samba.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BSamba%5D%20unix%20fifo%20inaccessible%20via%20samba%20share&In-Reply-To=%3CCAEhO07OWwZDC_W1Md6DckMzxULKnELfq4hYPV86szYb0PG7%3DzQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E>* **Tue Jul 19 15:40:19 MDT 2011* >smb and cifs, being Windows inventions, have no concept of a unix >fifo, there's simply nothing for samba to translate it to/from On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Charles Redditt <redcharlie at gmail.com <https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba>> wrote: >* Issue: unix fifo (named pipe) does not appear in share, attempts to read*>* >the pipe result in "Access Denied"*>**>* From an XP laptop, I can open and >access my samba share normally. I can*>* read all files and subdirectories in >the share, but a fifo I need to read*>* does not appear at all. I have made >the fifo mode 777 (world readable,*>* writeable, executeable) and tried other >things like setting " follow*>* symlinks = yes ", "unix extensions = no" and >"log level = 3", making the*>* fifo name less than 8 char, but nothing seems >to help. If I try to*>* directly read from the share, from a MSDOS cmdline, >with a "type*>* \\server\myshare\mypipe" I get only an "Access Denied" >message.*>**>* I have been able to do this for years on other machines, >specifically one*>* running CentOS 5.5, smb version 3.0.33-3.29.el5_6.2* -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
