Cannot delete sockets over CIFS

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 03:26:24PM -0700, Darshan Purandare wrote:
> Hi,
> 
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> 
> I wrote a perl script to generate some open UNIX sockets on the server,
> and trying to delete them from a CIFS client. I get an "ACCESS DENIED"
> message on the windows box.
> 
>  
> 
> I looked though code (samba 3.0.23c) and found that samba attempt to
> open the file for all operations that includes read, write and edit. If
> it can open the file, it does the subsequent action, but if it cannot
> then it returns an error message "Operation not Permitted".
> 
> In my case, since it cannot open socket, it cannot delete them.
> 
>  
> 
> Can anybody throw some insight into this problem.

Try Samba 3.2. This needs the posix open capability I think.

Jeremy.