On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 08:47:34AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Mar 19, 2002 10:11 -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > That's not the problem part of the tcpdump output. The problem is that part
> > of an email previously read on the linux box (with no samba runing. (also,
> > no smbfs MikeG?)) showed up in the tcpdump output...
>
> I haven't been following the whole thread, but it is _possible_ that the
> email data was written to the end of a data block which was later re-used
> for a file exported via SMB. Depending on how the SMB code works, is it
> possible that it is sending a whole block of data to the client and/or
> not zeroing out new blocks?
>
> Of course (not having looked at the original tcpdump output), is it
> possible that the email was captured by tcpdump because it arrived on
> the host via the network?
>
I'm still waiting to find out what computer 10.0.0.101 is for MikeG...
But, he's not running samba or smbfs, and the email was encoded within a smb
packet...
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