CIFS files permission

[Tom Diehl]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Devon Harding wrote:

> On 4/11/06, Devon Harding <devonharding at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Steve French seems to have spotted the problem with mount.cifs sending the
> > wrong signature on SMB READ requests.  More details here:
> >
> >
> > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e9917a000fcc370408c8b7b83f2e85dba5fffbd4
> >
> >
> > On 4/11/06, Devon Harding < devonharding at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I wonder if there is any workaround?  Is CIFS the only way to get to a
> > > Windows 2003 Server share?
> > >
> > >
> > > On 4/11/06, Tom Diehl < tdiehl at rogueind.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Devon Harding wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > That's the exact problem.  Question is, what changed in FC5 that
> > > > caused CIFS
> > > > > READ issues with Windows 2003 DC's?
> > > > >
> > > > > On 4/11/06, rus < rus at forgecom.co.uk > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Can you write to the share but not read any files?
> > > > > > If so then you might want to check this
> > > > > > http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-100193.html
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 16:37 -0400, Devon Harding wrote:
> > > > > > > I have files from my Windows CIFS share listed like this:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > -rwxrwSrwt 1 root root  2.3M Nov 21 13:05 File.zip
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I cannot seem to copy them, I get this error:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > [root at mars Win]# cp File.zip ~root
> > > > > > > cp: reading `File.zip': Permission denied
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Any Ideas?
> > > >
> > > > FC4 has the same problem for me. It was working but stopped.
> > > >
> > > > I just had a thought and rebooted to the 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 kernel.
> > > > Quick
> > > > testing (less than 30 seconds worth) shows things to be working again.
> > > >
> > > > No more errors in the logs either. :-))
> > > >
> > > > Looks to me like some kind of kernel bug. Maybe in the cifs module.
> > > >
> > > > Maybe this is what is causing the problem in FC5 also.
> > > >
> > > > Off to bugzilla to update the bug.
> > > >


> Has anyone tried an NFS mount to see if the problem exists there also?

If you read the link you posted to this thread, the bug is in the CIFS module.
Why would you think this could also effect NFS? CIFS is a windoze thing NFS
is *nix.

Regards,

Tom Diehl		tdiehl at rogueind.com		Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com