File Locking problem (I think)

[DavidAtkinson at solectron.com]

Because I want other people to be able to get in and modify the file names
and file contents without having to give them accounts to login with.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kauffmann, Andreas [mailto:andreas.kauffmann at tzdan.de]
Sent: Wednesday, 26 September 2001 7:16 PM
To: DavidAtkinson at solectron.com
Subject: AW: File Locking problem (I think)


why u make it so difficult?

why don´t make this share with apache as a webshare? :-)

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: DavidAtkinson at solectron.com [mailto:DavidAtkinson at solectron.com]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 26. September 2001 10:08
An: samba-ntdom at lists.samba.org
Betreff: File Locking problem (I think)


This is a problem I have been struglling with for some months, so I
thought
I'd throw it out there to see if anyone can help.

I have a RedHat 7.1 box (but I have had this under earlier versions)
running
samba 2.0.7 (or thereabouts) which has a share called music. Under
various
folders I have various MP3 repositories and video clips, etc... which
are
world readable (ie public = yes). I have configured an access list
("valid
users=@music"; "write list=@music") and confirmed that the share is
writable
by connecting a creating and deleteing folders and creating and
deleteing
text files (through the windows explorer interface). The text files
created
are able to be modified an indefinite number of times in Notepad and
then
deleted at the end. The problem I have is that when I copy videos off
CDs
(which is currently my only source of music videos, because I wouldn't
want
to be doing anything illegal ;-) ) they copy onto the share without
problems, but then they cannot be renamed or deleted. 

The problem possibly stems from the owner being set to root:music (my
user
id, "david", is in the "music" group). I have found that this problem
doesn't occur (for the "david" user) when the permissions are
david:music,
but I would prefer to be able to have users other than myself be able to
modify song names. I have been able to telnet into my file server and
modify
the file names (both as "root" and as "david") which indicates the file
sytem permissions (I have tried both 775 and 664) are correct.

As all the permisions appear to be correct on the UNIX side my thinking
is
that this is possibly a file locking thing. I'm not to sure how Samba
tracks
file locks, but it is wierd that Samba would lock a file as soon as it
is
loaded onto a share.



If anyone has any suggestions or would like me to clarify/elaborate on
any
of the areas, please feel free to either broadcast the
question/request/suggestion or contact me directly. Thanks in advance
(and
well done for making it thorugh my problem description!)

Regards
David Atkinson