On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 09:00:57AM -0800, Ben Mohilef wrote: > After today's samba update, Centos 3 boxes can not use samba to > communicate with each other, although Windows and the Centos 3 boxes > see each other correctly as do RHEL5 and the Centos3 boxes. The du > command works well, but ls, cp, cat ,etc produces the error: > PANIC: push_ascii - dest_len == -1 > in the server log and > smb_trans2_request: result=-5, setting invalid > in the client. > You mean samba-3.0.9-1.3E.13.2 -> samba-3.0.9-1.3E.14.1 ? The changelog only reads: * Wed Oct 17 2007 Simo Sorce <ssorce at redhat.com> 3.0.9-1.3E.14 - Security fix for CVE-2007-4572 and CVE-2007-5398 resolves: #350731 resolves: #359101 Are all your CentOS-3 machines running the same samba version? (smb restarted ?) > A similar (but more serious) set of problems was reported in Ubuntu early > this morning after their update. > > Is any one else experiencing this problem with samba and Centos 3 after > the update? You are the first reporting it, I don't really use samba ;) According to the diff from the 2 above versions, the possible culprit is samba-3.0.9-CVE-2007-4572.patch Cheers, and keep up posted! Tru -- Tru Huynh (CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20071116/036c45e8/attachment-0005.sig>