Directory rename problem with smbclient

[Jeremy Allison]

jpjanosi at us.ibm.com wrote:
> 
> After looking at the code from samba 1.9.18p10  I made the following change
> to libsmb/clientgen.c to resolve this problem, is there any reason I
> shouldn't do this?
> 
> *** clientgen.c.orig     Wed Nov 10 20:36:03 1999
> --- clientgen.c     Sat Jan  1 09:28:32 2000
> **************
> **** 1059,1065 ****
>            SSVAL(cli->outbuf,smb_tid,cli->cnum);
>            cli_setup_packet(cli);
> 
> !          SSVAL(cli->outbuf,smb_vwv0,aSYSTEM | aHIDDEN);
>            p = smb_buf(cli->outbuf);
>            *p++ = 4;
> --- 1059,1065 ----
>           SSVAL(cli->outbuf,smb_tid,cli->cnum);
>           cli_setup_packet(cli);
> !         SSVAL(cli->outbuf,smb_vwv0,aSYSTEM | aHIDDEN | aDIR);
>           p = smb_buf(cli->outbuf);
>           *p++ = 4;
> 
> ---------------------- Forwarded by John P Janosik/Rochester/IBM on
> 01/01/2000 09:22 AM ---------------------------
> 
> I am trying to use smbclient to migrate data from OS/2 LanServers to a
> filesystem on an AIX 4.3.1 machine.  Everything works great except renaming
> directories on the OS/2 LanServer.  I get the error ERRDOS - ERRbadfile
> (File not found.) renaming files when I do a "rename <existing_dir_name>
> <new_dir_name>" at the prompt, but <existing_dir_name> exists.  I connected
> to a NT Server and a Samba server with smbclient and am able to rename
> directories on these systems.  I also tried connecting to the OS/2
> LanServer from an NT client, and I am able to rename directories, so I do
> not think there is a problem with the OS/2 machine.

Yes, this looks like exactly the correct fix. I will add
it into the master sources for Samba 2.0.7.

Regards,

	Jeremy Allison,
	Samba Team.


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