[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#441971: Bug#441971: smbfs: tail -f on growing file shared from WINXP BOX not working

[Christian Perrier]

(replying to this mail sent in private, CC'ing the bug report for
archiving purposes)

> I'm not saing that is a critical bug, it is only small disadvantage for me. 

Yep, this is why the "normal" severity is the correct severity.


> When I was asking goolge, I found that others have this problem too. I 
> remamber that this problem was a few years a go in older versions of samba, 
> an it was fixed. I have to say that I was trying any options to mount, and I 
> was try to mount using cifs kernel, but there was a problem too, but some 
> other kind - I get extra binary signs like (^@).
> 
>> We need more information.
>>
>> How do you mount the Windows directory (mount options)?
> 
> Line from fstab, 
> //XP_box/files  /mnt/share     smbfs username=user,password=secret
> 
> No more options given, everything is default.
> I've got this problem with debian sid samba version, on kernel 2.6.22-2, and 
> samba/smbfs version 3.0.26-1


I would strongly recommend to first try reproducing this with the *cifs*
file system instead of smbfs.

smbfs is unmaintained upstream and very unlikely to be fixed in any way.

If the bug shows up with cifs, then we'll have good material to send
upstream.

If the bug doesn't happen with cifs, then this bug will join the long
list of "smbfs sucks" bugs until we finally decide to completely remove
the smbfs utilities from the smbfs package