Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 17 Oct 2001 08:56:18 -0500 (CDT) | From | "Gerald (Jerry) Carter" <> | Subject | Re: Creating files on Samba got weird |
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On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, vda wrote:
> (CC'ing to lkml in hope on advise why I've got ksymoops error) > > Hello Urban, > > My Samba server behaves strangely. > Very frequently (but not always) when I try to create/copy > files from win box to linux samba server it says that file/dir > already exists or that connection terminated. It is indeed exists, > in case of a file it is of zero length. Subsequent copy with > overwrite succeeds. > > It seems that smbd dies after it has created dir/file but before > reporting this fact to the client. New smbd gets spawned by inetd > then.
Following my fading memory here, but....
What file system are you sharing? VFAT by chance? For some reason this sounds vaguely like a truncate bug Tridge fixed a few monthds back. Try 2.2.2 (released over the weekend).
If you are exporting a VFAT fs, try to reproduce the same behavior using ext2.
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