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Re: Samba and win98



On 19 Aug 1998 peloy@ven.ra.rockwell.com wrote:

> Michael Beattie <mickyb@es.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> > I have just stumbled across an annoying little problem. A friend and I
> > have a network between our PC's, and when I mount his smbfs shares, I get
> > really screwy file listings. when there is 700 files or something (windows
> > dir.. :) ) it comes out showing me 64, 128 etc... it changes
> > intermitently. Anyone got an idea as to wtf is going on?
> 
> Oh, the problem is with smbfs and NOT with Samba. I got confused by
> the subject line...
> 
> Yup, what kernel version are you using? There's something wrong with
> smbfs in 2.1.x kernels when smbmount'ing a share from Windows 95 (and
> probably Windows 98 as well, as you report) servers.

I've only got 2.0.34, so I seem to have found a new problem :)

                       Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)

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