Also confirming that using the nodfs option on a patched kernel allows
a successful workaround for affected Samba servers. Reassigning to
linux, Chuck has already been pushing the patch to the kernel team.
** Summary changed:
- Access to samba3.0.26 shares using CIFS is broken on 8.10
+ Access
Since the Samba servers 3.0.24 through 3.0.25a which exhibited this
problem may have had problems with parsing a DFS path (in this case
for a path based call to set the file server), could someone check if
the write problems go away if the mount is done with the nodfs mount
option (would require
I've attached a tar file with two Wireshark dumps, as I couldn't work out how to
attach two files to a comment here directly.
If more information is required, please let me know.
Server: DNS-323, samba 3.0.24
Client: Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic
with standard settings:
The nodfs option was added by this patch:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2c1b861539c15491593625920058e06452cd3747
which went in right after 2.6.27 came out so will be in 2.6.28. The
patch is small and could be added to this 2.6.27 distro kernel
** Summary changed:
- CIFS share broken after upgrade from 8.04 - 8.10
+ Access to samba3.0.26 shares using CIFS is broken on 8.10
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Access to samba3.0.26 shares using CIFS is broken on 8.10
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286828
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Many thanks, Steve, for helping us debug this one !
I updated the title to reflect the types of servers affected.
Aron: Feisty is no longer supported so you should at least upgrade to
Gutsy.
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Access to samba3.0.26 shares using CIFS is broken on 8.10
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286828
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