On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 21:16 -0700, Joe Barnett wrote: > Grant Ozolins wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I updated my FC5 client and server this morning to samba 3.0.23a-1 > > (common, client, and server) - and now when I try to read file from > > mounted CIFS shares my client gets: > > > > CIFS VFS: Send error in read = -13 > > > > Configurations are fairly straighforward, and unchanged before and after > > upgrade: > > > > server (from smb.conf) > > > > [shared] > > comment = Web Development > > path = /var/www/shared > > browseable = yes > > writable = yes > > create mask = 0664 > > force group = users > > > > client (from fstab) > > //server/shared /mnt/shared cifs > > credentials=/etc/fscred,uid=user.name,gid=1000,debug=4 0 0 > > > > If anyone could shine any light on why I can't read anything now I'd be > > very grateful! > > > > Reagards, > > > > My apologies if this has been answered already... > > I noticed similar behaviour back when the OpenBSD Samba port was > bumped to version 3.x. Windows machines were able to access Samba > shares as always, but Linux workstations were not (it was a > permisisons issue, some files could be read, many could not, but > nothing was behaving as it should). While I am still ignorant of > the exact reasons *why* this bahaviour showed up, the solution in my > case was to set "unix extensions = no" in smb.conf on the server. I > realize this reduces some of the functionality which CIFS is > supposed to offer, it was more important to get file sharing working > again. > > Anyway, try "unix extensions = no" in smb.conf (server) and see if > this makes any difference. > > I realize the change took place on your client and not the server, > but this still might work. In my case I already have "unix extensions = no" because I need to do UID mapping between the client and server, which doesn't work with the unix extensions turned on. Paul.
