I’ve got a problem with fs-cifs that it doesn’t seem to want to recognize a
file as a file. Programs that attempt to open the file get various i/o
errors. In diffing the verbose output of cifs from syslog, I can see that
for files it’s getting, it calls stat(), whereas for the file it’s not, it
seems to be calling smb_chkdir() and that seems to be the downfall. I’ve
appended output of syslog, with the host and file names changed to protect
the innocent.
We’ve rebooted the involved machines numerous times, and the symptoms are
the same for two different Patch B NTO boxes pointing to the same WinNT SP5
box.
Any hints in here?