[Samba] Delayed Write failures with Windows XP

[Hall, Ken (ECSS)]

> We have Windows XP users who have their desktop folders on a Samba share.  Some of them have been getting "Delayed Write Failure" messages recently on the "cookies/index.dat" file.  At first I
> thought it was a fluke related to a network outage we experienced, but now I'm finding out it had been happening previously, and it's still going on.
> 
> This is Samba 2.2.5 on SuSE Linux SLES7 on S/390.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?  Thanks.
> 
One respondent suggested giving all users admin authority to the share, but that's not acceptable for a number of reasons, and since the problem isn't consistent, I don't see why this would help or be
necessary.