Re: Samba and Windows XP Explorer

Hi Ben,

> Did anyone figure out why Windows XP explorer seems to exhibit strange 
> behavior when accessing a Samba Gentoo Alpha share?  Here are a couple 
> of the problems that I'm seeing:
>
> Creating a folder: XP seems to create a 'New Folder' and 'New Folder 
> 2' folder when using the menus.
>
> Drag and Drop Copy: I can drag a file onto a folder and the file is 
> placed correctly into the folder, but if I drag a file into an open 
> folder window it fails with an error saying that the share is unavailable
>
> I saw some comments earlier, but didn't see a resolution.  Any luck?
>

I've had these same problems, and some others (like when saving a file 
from Firefox (Windows machine) to a Gentoo Samba share, Firefox asks if 
I want to overwrite the file but it didn't exist before... It looks as 
if either Samba or Firefox created a 0 byte file with the same name 
right before I clicked OK to the save dialog...)

I haven't found any way to fix the problem.

If you check your syslog, when the problems happen there seems to be an 
error logged by Samba stating something like a "signal 11" happened, and 
to check the Samba docs about that. In the docs (and in several google 
searches I've done on the subject), what it says is basically that a 
signal 11 would either be caused by a programming error (bug) or faulty 
memory. Now, I tested my memory extensively lately, and I haven't found 
any problems... The weird thing is that so many people use Samba daily, 
I would have thought that if it was indeed caused by a bug, it would 
have been found and fixed pretty quickly.

Right now I'm kinda busy, and this problem is minor for me considering 
what I use the machine for. But my next step, when I had some time, was 
to get on the samba mailing list and see what they had to say about 
this. If you want to go ahead and do that, be my guest... And please 
report what you find out here.

If not, I guess in a few weeks time I'll try and go a bit further on this.

Good luck,

J-S

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