I just wanted to update everyone, if it helps, that I installed 3.0.23c from source RPMs and it had no affect on the issue I'm having.
Anyone have any ideas on this? Would I be better off pursuing this on the CIFS or any other mail list? Chris On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 14:54 -0400, Chris Elston wrote: > First: this is my first post on this list so any suggestions, let me > know. > > I recently had to make the move from SMBFS to CIFS when I upgraded from > Fedora 4 to 5. Changing settings in my /etc/fstab was easy and no > errors come up but now I'm having an issue very similar to post I found > on your list that got no response back in April: > > http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2006-April/119813.html > > Just as he describes in his second point, while editing a file from a > CIFS mounted share, something is confusing vim as to the timestamp of > the file and it thinks that the file has changed since my last writing. > My first write always works without a warning but all subsequent writes > produce the warning. I can guarantee that I am in fact the only person > editing this file > > This occurs regardless of what OS owns the share. I'm experiencing the > same situation on mounted shares from a Windows 2003 server as well > another Linux server running Fedora 5 as well. This leads me to believe > it's more a client-side issue than improperly configured shares. To a > further point, I attempted to alter the date/time on the Windows 2003 > server to both before and after the date/time on my client machine w/ no > change in situation. I've encountered some Vim > discussions/documentation alluding to an issue on Windows relating to > daylight savings but, again, since this appears to be happening > regardless of server OS, I've again weeded that out as a cause. > > This issue never occurred while using SMBFS so I can only attribute it > to the new, forced, use of CIFS. Likewise, I'm hesitant to blame vim as > I'm not having this problem on local files or files mounted through NFS > or other means. Here's a run-down of my specs if it helps: > > OS: Fedora Core 5 Linux > Kernel version: 2.6.17 (from 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 RPM) > Samba version: 3.0.23b (from samba.org provided RPMs) > > /etc/fstab: > //SERVER/SHARE /PATHTO/MOUNTPOINT cifs > auto,setuids,user=XXX,password=XXX,gid=celston,uid=celston,dir_mode=0775,file_mode=0664 > 0 0 > > As I mentioned, the only post I found through some Google searching was > the one from above. If this has been covered before, I apologize. I > appreciate any feedback. > > Chris Elston > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
