Samba is 3.04-SUSE that came with SUSE 9.1 Pro, with patches applied from SUSE up through mid October 2004. To reproduce, on Win98SE, J: is samba share, F: is local disk. in F: mkdir testEmpty cd testEmpty Make a new file called TEstFile.txt. This is not known to be important, but it makes something in the test directory besides the empty directory. mkdir emptyDirectory In windows explorer, control-drag testEmpty to J: so as to copy it there. *I* received the error "System Error 161: The Specified Path is Invalid" from a directory hierarchy compare program called Dir Prudence. You can also see the error by opening a command.com window, changing directory to J:\testEmpty\emptyDirectory and doing a "dir". It lists the . and .. entries, then prints "Extended Error 161". I would *like* to send you a level 9 samba log file, but the bug reporting system will not let me because it is too long. It is just of the command prompt failure. If you mail to webclark at rochester dot rr dot com and copy raymond.clark at xerox dot com I will send it to you promptly. I would appreciate any feedback, especially if it includes a way to make it work, or an indication when this might be fixed, or an indication if it will not be! My intent is to migrate to linux, while depending on Win98 when I must have an MS platform. Thank you for your work. You have indeed made the world a better place, because without interoperability with MS we would all be hosed! Ray Clark webclark at rochester dot rr dot com
I did some fixes to the pathname parsing between 3.0.4 and 3.0.8. Can you try this with 3.0.8 and let me know if it fixes the problem ? Thanks, Jeremy.
(In reply to comment #1) > I did some fixes to the pathname parsing between 3.0.4 and 3.0.8. Can you try > this with 3.0.8 and let me know if it fixes the problem ? Thanks for the quick response! I am willing, but have never installed an update like this. I am sure I can do it, but a few sentences giving me the big picture of how to do it and the scope of the task would be a big help. It will probably take me a little over a week due to obligations and the thanksgiving holiday.
(In reply to comment #1) > I did some fixes to the pathname parsing between 3.0.4 and 3.0.8. Can you try > this with 3.0.8 and let me know if it fixes the problem ? Problem still exists, exactly as described, in 3.0.9-2.1-SUSE, which resulted from an installation of Suse 9.2 followed by patches offered by Suse's online update. There was a samba patch. Changed version of problem to 3.0.9... assume this was appropriate. --Ray
please retest against 3.0.11. Lots of fixes since 3.0.9. Thanks.
sorry for the same, cleaning up the database to prevent unecessary reopens of bugs.