Description of problem: A share mounted using the CIFS mounts correctly. Files can be viewed or listed but cannot read, open 0r copy files. Kernel dmesg log reports only: "CIFS VFS: Send error in read = -13" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ uname -r 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp Steps to Reproduce: 1. mount.cifs //192.168.XXX.XX/share /win2003server -o username=user,password=passwd 2. cd /win2003server 3. cp -dpR filename.txt /z/ -v Actual results: $ cp filename.txt cp: two filename.txt: Permission denied Expected results: $ cp filename.txt [file contents here...] Additional info: Samba 3.0.23b. did not resolve this problem. Note in fedora core 3 & 4 the above CIFS works pretty well. This problem is also repeated not only in fedora core 5 but also in fedora core 6 zod. it is a problem with the WINDOWS 2003 SMALLBUSINES SERVER. With other windows operating systems it works perfectly.
Samba provides only the user space mount helper, if mount is fine, then the bug must be in the CIFS Kernel module (as the CIFS VFS log line seem to imply). Reassigning bug to kernel.
Try a newer kernel. 2.6.19-1.2288.2.1 should be out any minute now.
l'm always afraid to modify kernel because the last time l applied a patch it took me 5hrs to restore the whole system. So l took the other way round by modifying the windows 2003 server registry to allow SMB BLOCK in the access control. for now it works fine but not a good idea for security reasons. Hope this will be resolved with fedora core 7.
Is this still an issue on F7 or F8?
No in Fedora 7 it is completely possible to do mounts with CIFS without problems. I haven't tried Fedora 8 yet.
Good. I'll close this as CURRENTRELEASE then. Please reopen if you find it to still be an issue.