[Samba] GPO Linux file policy Problem

[David Mulder]

On 6/5/23 12:28 AM, Anderson Sampaio Mello via samba wrote:
> Greetings samba team.
>
> There is a problem for file policy type GPOs for Linux clients. to copy
> files to linux clients with winbind.
>
> The problem is that when a file already exists in the linux client with
> winbind and joined to the domain, the GPO does not copy the file from the
> samba server to the destination linux client, that is, it does not replace
> the file in the destination if it already exists in the linux client .
>
> For the GPO to work, the file must not exist on the linux client.
>
> Does anyone know the cause of the problem?
The problem is that it is written to do this:

```python
if os.path.exists(target):
     log.warn('Target file already exists', target)
     continue
```

If you call samba-gpupdate with debug, you'll see this warning. This 
behavior has actually changed in Samba 4.18. Since 4.18, the target file 
will be overwritten if it already exists. As a work around, you could 
remove that check in the vgp_files_ext.py CSE.

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David Mulder
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