samba - Jan 2007 - Mode 0x1b4 errors in logs, unable to save Word documents

Hi all,

Our users have started to complain that some of the time they're unable
to save Word documents to our Samba drive - Word tells them the disk
is full. I had a look at the logs, and there are a lot of weird
"Function not implemented" errors. These have been there for a while,
but the "Operation not permitted" ones seem new.  Nothing on the
server
has changed.

What's this "mode 0x1b4"?  This is with Samba 3.0.21rc2 - does
anyone
know if these issues have been changed in a newer release?  I wonder
whether it's possible to silently fail here to stop Word from giving a
"disk full" error message.

Any ideas?

Many thanks,
Adam.


Jan 22 16:54:53 aquila smbd_audit[12156]: open Human Ethics/Document
Generation/Source.doc (fd 36)
Jan 22 16:54:53 aquila smbd_audit[12156]: open Human Ethics/Document
Generation/~WRD2200.tmp (fd 37)
Jan 22 16:54:53 aquila smbd_audit[12156]: close fd 37  
Jan 22 16:54:53 aquila smbd_audit[12156]: open Human Ethics/Document
Generation/~WRD2200.tmp (fd 37) for writing
Jan 22 16:54:53 aquila smbd_audit[12156]: chmod_acl Human Ethics/Document
Generation/~WRD2200.tmp mode 0x1b4 failed: Function not implemented
Jan 22 16:54:53 aquila smbd_audit[12156]: chmod Human Ethics/Document
Generation/~WRD2200.tmp mode 0x1b4 failed: Operation not permitted

> Since you are running an rc version of an older release... maybe you 
> should update first?
I would, but upgrading a production machine can be a bit of a hassle
especially when you don't know if it will fix the problem (since it
works perfectly otherwise.)  There seems to be a bit of recent
discussion about this but no definite response, so I'm not so sure it
has been fixed.

Cheers,
Adam.

Hi Adam

A possible solution is to use max disk size, but to be honest it is long 
shoot.


      max disk size

This global option specifies an illusory limit, in megabytes, for each 
share that Samba is offering. It only affects how much disk space Samba 
reports the share as having and does not prevent more disk space from 
actually being available for use. You would typically set this option to 
prevent clients with older operating systems?or running buggy 
applications?from being confused by large disk spaces. For example, some 
older Windows applications become confused when they encounter a share 
larger than 1 gigabyte. To work around this problem, max disk size can 
be set as follows:

    [global]
        max disk size = 1000


It seems that there is some problem related to acl, what kind of 
filesystem do you use?
Is your samba version compiled with acl support?
You might have to take a look at smb.conf about acl. e.g. try to disable 
acl for the a directory and see what happens


Best Regards
Rune T?nnesen



Adam Nielsen skrev:
> Hi all,
>
> Our users have started to complain that some of the time they're unable
> to save Word documents to our Samba drive - Word tells them the disk
> is full. I had a look at the logs, and there are a lot of weird
> "Function not implemented" errors. These have been there for a
while,
> but the "Operation not permitted" ones seem new.  Nothing on the
server
> has changed.
>
> What's this "mode 0x1b4"?  This is with Samba 3.0.21rc2 -
does anyone
> know if these issues have been changed in a newer release?  I wonder
> whether it's possible to silently fail here to stop Word from giving a
> "disk full" error message.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Many thanks,
> Adam.
>
>
> Jan 22 16:54:53 aquila smbd_audit[12156]: open Human Ethics/Document
Generation/Source.doc (fd 36)
> Jan 22 16:54:53 aquila smbd_audit[12156]: open Human Ethics/Document
Generation/~WRD2200.tmp (fd 37)
> Jan 22 16:54:53 aquila smbd_audit[12156]: close fd 37  
> Jan 22 16:54:53 aquila smbd_audit[12156]: open Human Ethics/Document
Generation/~WRD2200.tmp (fd 37) for writing
> Jan 22 16:54:53 aquila smbd_audit[12156]: chmod_acl Human Ethics/Document
Generation/~WRD2200.tmp mode 0x1b4 failed: Function not implemented
> Jan 22 16:54:53 aquila smbd_audit[12156]: chmod Human Ethics/Document
Generation/~WRD2200.tmp mode 0x1b4 failed: Operation not permitted
>