samba - Jan 2005 - smbfs pc-netlink problem

I posted basically this problem yesterday with no response, but I have some
new information so here's a rego.
 
I mount a solaris box which is sharing files with pc-netlink

I use the following line in my fstab
 
//machinename/Share /mnt/machinename/share smbfs
credentials=/etc/fstabpwds/username,ro,user 0 0
 
And it mounts fine, I can access all the directories, and most of the files.
 
Some of the files however are problematic. Namely, I can't copy them or open
them or use them in anyway. If I try to cp them, the process never ends and
the resulting file grows until it takes up all the space on the destination
drive.
 
If it's a text file, and I try to cat it, the process hangs.
 
An ls -l of the file does show the proper file size.
 
I have smbfs 3.0.10-1 installed.
I'm running 
Linux version 2.6.8-1-386 (joshk@trollwife) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian
1:3.3.5-2)) #1
 
Connecting to the same share via a 
Smbclient //machinename/Share
 
Allows me to navigate to, and get the files just fine.
 
Accessing these shares from Windows boxes works just fine.
 
I'm completely stumped, and this is a show stopper for rolling out a new
server, so if anyone has any ideas, please let me know.

Hi Rob,

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 01:12:15PM -0600, Rob Brenart (TT)
wrote:
> I posted basically this problem yesterday with no response, but I have some
> new information so here's a rego.
>  
> I mount a solaris box which is sharing files with pc-netlink
> 
> I use the following line in my fstab
>  
> //machinename/Share /mnt/machinename/share smbfs
> credentials=/etc/fstabpwds/username,ro,user 0 0
>  
> And it mounts fine, I can access all the directories, and most of the
files.
>  
> Some of the files however are problematic. Namely, I can't copy them or
open
> them or use them in anyway. If I try to cp them, the process never ends and
> the resulting file grows until it takes up all the space on the destination
> drive.
This is a known issue. You can workaround it by using with the
(undocumented) "oldattr" option. Please give use feedback if it that
helps
for you.

Guenther

-- 
Guenther Deschner                                               Samba Team
SerNet GmbH - Goettingen                                      gd@samba,org
gd@sernet.de
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(Sorry Guenther, I accidentally replied to you personally early, my mistake)

Adding the oldattr option did not work, adding the oldattr option and
removing user from my fstab did do the trick.

Thank you so much!



-----Original Message-----
From: Guenther Deschner [mailto:gd@samba.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 1:46 PM
To: Rob Brenart (TT)
Cc: 'samba@lists.samba.org'
Subject: Re: [Samba] smbfs pc-netlink problem

Hi Rob,

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 01:12:15PM -0600, Rob Brenart (TT)
wrote:
> I posted basically this problem yesterday with no response, but I have
some
> new information so here's a rego.
>  
> I mount a solaris box which is sharing files with pc-netlink
> 
> I use the following line in my fstab
>  
> //machinename/Share /mnt/machinename/share smbfs
> credentials=/etc/fstabpwds/username,ro,user 0 0
>  
> And it mounts fine, I can access all the directories, and most of the
files.
>  
> Some of the files however are problematic. Namely, I can't copy them or
open
> them or use them in anyway. If I try to cp them, the process never ends
and
> the resulting file grows until it takes up all the space on the
destination
> drive.
This is a known issue. You can workaround it by using with the
(undocumented) "oldattr" option. Please give use feedback if it that
helps
for you.

Guenther

-- 
Guenther Deschner                                               Samba Team
SerNet GmbH - Goettingen                                      gd@samba,org
gd@sernet.de

Hi all,

As per suggested i added a windbind seperator comment in my samba.conf file
and followed that up with "adminin user=<Domain+Some AD user".  I
expected
this to give that AD user full control over the share (read , write ,
execute) however, if that user tries to create a file in that direcotry he
still gets accessed is denied.  Right now i have the share owned by a unix
user (because i dont know of any why to have it owned by an AD user) non
root with 755 as the permissions on all the folders.  How do i go about
giving and ADS user the ability to create files and folders in that
directory without changing the rights to 777 for all files and folders?

Thanks,
R.