This is driving me crazy. Any suggestions on how to debug the problem would
be appreciated.
I have Gentoo running on a server machine, running samba to provide network
shares. My "other" machine runs Windows part of the time and Linux part of
the time. I don't want to run both nfs and samba on server, so I find myself
trying to connect to samba shares from Fedora Core 5.
The server has two shares exported, a public directory, and a homes share to
allow access to home directories for individual users.
With Windows XP running on the client computer, I can connect to both shares
with no problems. From Fedora, I can mount the public directory, and I can
use smbclient on the homes share with no problem. I can also mount the homes
share with
mount -t cifs //server/homes <directory> -o user=<myself>
This works with no complaints, and mount and df show it in place.
The problem is trying to access the share. I can cd to the directory with no
complaints, then I type ls, and I get the message
ls: reading directory .: Invalid argument
A little more background. I had this working before. The server side has not
changed since it was working. I re-installed Fedora on the client after a
hard disk drive failure, so I'm probably missing something but I have no idea
where to look.
I ran strace with the ls command, but it was not very helpful. It shows
getdents() returning invalid argument. The getdents man page says that means
result buffer too short. Which doesn't help identify the problem (at least
not for me).
Sorry this is so long and disorganized, but I was trying to include all the
relavent information. Any suggestions appreciated.
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