problems with winCVS

[Hans Juergen von Lengerke]

You may want to force samba users of the 'coders' share into group
'coder' (see "force group" parameter in smb.conf).

Hth,
Hans


Tobias Strasser:

> hi everybody,
> we have problems using wincvs with a cvsroot on a samba-server. we 
> think that the problem is the renaming of files where the cvs user does
> not have write-permisson on:
> 
> this is our configuration:
> 
> fileserver on a irix6.5 running samba 1.9.18p8
>   having a share on / named 'coder'.
>   
> win95 box, running wincvs, setting cvsroot something like
>   \\cvsserver\coder\projects\cvsroot
> 
> problem:
> when i do a commit on a file on which i'm not the owner, wincvs reports:
> 
> cvs [commit aborted]: cannot rename file
> \\cvsserver\projects\cvsroot/src/,test.c, to
> \\cvsserver\projects\cvsroot/src/test.c,v: File exists
> 
> althought the directory permissions would allow a rename:
> (i have userid=tripod, group=coder)
> 
> -rw-rw-r--    1 tripod   coder       4607 Feb 19 10:36 ,test.c,
> drwxrwxr-x    4 spiff    coder       4096 Feb 19 10:36 .
> drwxrwxr-x   24 spiff    coder       4096 Feb 18 21:53 ..
> -r--r--r--    1 spiff    coder        190 Nov 19 21:11 .cvsignore,v
> drwxrwxr-x    2 spiff    coder         51 Dec 10 11:41 Attic
> drwxrwxr-x    2 spiff    coder          9 Feb 18 21:33 Debug
> -r--r--r--    1 spiff    coder       4456 Nov 19 18:33 test.c,v
> 
> (actually the rename action would be a delete/rename).
> 
> if i change the owner of the file, it works. if i give write
> permission to the 'group' it works, too.
> 
> now, the problem is, that the cvs on unix can handle this. i'm not
> quite sure, if it's a problem of wincvs or of samba.
> 
> however, can i setup samba that it allows renames of files, which i
> don't own and where i have no write permission but where i have write
> permission on the directory?
> 
> tnx in advance,
> regards, toby
>