[Samba] Unable to delete files on Samba share

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Mon Mar 7 18:10:22 GMT 2005


On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 10:18:49AM -0600, Brandon Laing wrote:
> Hey list,
> 
> I'm seeing some strange behavior on a Samba server on a Fedora Core 2 
> system. What's happening is that a user, with full access to a folder, 
> will delete a file through Windows explorer. The file will disappear, 
> just like it was deleted. However, upon a refresh, the file is back 
> again. Thus far, the only workaround I've found is to change the user to 
> be the owner of the file/folder they're trying to delete. With an office 
> full of people using and sharing files/folders, this is not an efficient 
> way to go about doing things.

This is a known bug - I just fixed it in the latest SVN code. It'll be 
fixed in the next 3.0.12pre release and also in 3.0.12 final.

Hope that helps,

	Jeremy.


More information about the samba mailing list