samba - Apr 2001 - Samba, vfat and new kernels: Anyone able to solve the problem?

This is my third mail in the last three months and still no-one has
answered, while I received some comments from other users about the fact
that the problem is known. So if you have any info on how to fix this,
please post a message :-)

Here is the problem:

I used to share a vfat mounted partition with other collegues through samba
(2.0.7).
Everything worked and still works fine with kernel 2.2.18. With new kernels
(2.4.3) I have
problems in copying large files. Windows 98 clients returns me a message
saying I have no access rigths to perform the operation. Everything
works fine if:
- files are small (lessa than 100k)
- or I use a windows 2k client
- or the samba share is on a ext2 partition

Regards
  G.

I had the same problem recently (using Samba with shared vfat
partitions, and NFS-mounting vfat partitions over a network).
This worked fine with 2.2.17 and earlier, but not with 2.2.18 and
newer.  I did a lot of digging and wound up swapping e-mail with
Alan Cox and others involved in the development of the NFS code.
I was told that, yes, I was right, NFS doesn't work with vfat in
the new kernels - the code was considered an incredible kluge
and was removed.  So, I simply wound up moving all of the shared
directories to ext2; I'm now using 2.4.1 with Samba and NFS and
all works well.  In the case of one directory which needs to be
on vfat also, I copy the contents from the ext2 euqivalent over
to it a regular intervals as a cron job.

Ciao - Bob


On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Gianpaolo Cugola wrote:
> This is my third mail in the last three months and still no-one has
> answered, while I received some comments from other users about the fact
> that the problem is known. So if you have any info on how to fix this,
> please post a message :-)
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http://www.malibyte.net

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On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 05:36:29 Gianpaolo Cugola wrote:
>
> I used to share a vfat mounted partition with other collegues 
> through samba (2.0.7). Everything worked and still works fine 
> with kernel 2.2.18. With new kernels (2.4.3) I have
> problems in copying large files. Windows 98 clients 
> returns me a message saying I have no access rigths to perform 
> the operation. Everything works fine if: 
> - files are small (lessa than 100k)
> - or I use a windows 2k client
> - or the samba share is on a ext2 partition
You'll need to post a level 10 debug of the failure somewhere
via ftp before we can offer any advice.  






Cheers, jerry
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