Linux: Executables on a Samba/CIFS Share

Just a quick note: Don’t mount a cifs share with flag directio if you want to execute binaries that reside on that share.

Otherwise you will get the following error:

<command>: cannot execute binary file

Took me 2 hours to find out.

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    August 30th, 2009 at 9:59 pm

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  2. toby Says:
    April 29th, 2010 at 2:04 pm

    Thanks for that! Not sure how long I would have been debugging..

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