Re: [TCLUG:18951] question about samba client on linux

[Troy Johnson <john1536@tc.umn.edu>]

What distribution, kernel version, kernel options,...?

"Robert P. Goldman" wrote:
> 
> I've been having some new problems with my linux samba client.  When
> trying to list a long directory, I'm getting the following flavor of
> errors:
> 
> Jun 15 10:46:41 mn65-zippy kernel: smb_proc_readdir_long: Looping in FIND_NEXT??
> Jun 15 10:46:41 mn65-zippy kernel: smb_refill_dircache: readdir failed, result=-5
> [these from /var/log/messages]
> 
> I infer that this is a time-out error from two things:
> 
> 1.  some traffic on samba mail lists a while ago ('98) indicating that
> this error was returned by some Win95 servers and
> 2.  the fact that this only occurs when trying to ls directories with
> a large-ish number of files.
> 
> Question:  is it possible to somehow detune the samba client so it'll
> be less fussy and wait a little longer?  Reference #1 referred to a
> patch to smbfs in the kernel, but it was specific to Win95 matters.
> 
> On a similar note, does anyone clearly understand what happens with
> the file "masks" when you samba mount a directory?  These don't seem
> to behave like true masks --- rather they seem to actually BE the
> permissions.  It's hard for me to tell what I should be setting these
> to.
> 
> Thanks,
> Robert
> 
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