From: shankar AT chromatic DOT com (Shankar Unni)
Subject: Re: fork() fails for network-mounted executables
27 Jan 1997 12:46:13 -0800
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Shankar Unni wrote:
> 
> Shankar Unni wrote:
> 
> > On Windows 95, if an executable calling fork() lives in a
> > network-mounted directory, the fork() fails with errno = 13 (EACCES -
> > Permission denied).
> 
> This only happens with directories mounted from Unix machines that run
> Samba (all our servers, unfortunately). It seems to work OK when I run
> it in a directory mounted from another Windows machine.

OK, I tracked this down to the fact that we were running Samba 1.9.15
pl8. Moving to Samba 1.9.16 pl9 fixed this problem. Just FYI, in case
others are running into something similar.
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Shankar Unni                                  shankar AT chromatic DOT com
Chromatic Research                            (408) 752-9488
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