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I have a frustrating problem with shareing windows file to linux application.
The problem is:
Server: Windows 2000 Adervanced Server
Client: RHEL4 update 4
$mount -t smbfs //windir /dest
when my application in linux reading the windows shared file, the file content is not up-to-date. Sometimes it will update some later, but sometimes it won't forever.
I don't what's the problem is.
When I track the packet using tcpdump listening port 445, I can see a lot of "cksum incorrect" or "bad tcp cksum", I searched on google, guys says that was ok. And I also enable "netbios over TCP/IP" instead of previous "from DHCP", the problem still occurs.
Please help me to analyze this problem, and my english is bad, so if you doesn't understand my problem, I will try to explain it later.
well it looks like it's caching some data, but i've not seen anythign cache like that to such an extent. smbfs is deprecated onw, try cifs instead, I assume rhel 4.4 has it, and that would behave differently to what you're seeing.
Checksum differences are fine as the hardware itself will have done some offloading of the data as it enters the machine, so the checksum no longer matches, but it would have done when it mattered in the nic itself.
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