BUG: Creating New Folders On SMB (VFAT) Mounted drive

Frederic DEFFERRARD/FR/ALCATEL frederic.defferrard at alcatel.fr
Thu Apr 12 17:07:10 GMT 2001


Hi,

They have the same problem trying to create a new directory into a "novell 
ncpmount" share.

The system responds "unable to create the folder ..., Cannot create a file when 
that file already exists", but this new folder is finaly created.

version info: Samba 2.07 running on a Suse 2.2.16

freD.

 > I have a drive being shared with smb (it's a vfat drive, btw) and
 > whenever I go to create a new folder from any of the clients to that
 > shared drive, it gives me a message that the folder allready exists, but
 > it still does create a new folder, and then i have to rename "new
 > folder" to whatever I want, same goes with copying/moving folders, it
 > says the folder allready exists (when it does not) then asks if i want
 > to overwrite it.
 >     It seems like when you send a request to the SMB mounted (VFAT)
 > drive, it creates the folder then gets confused / or forgets it created
 > the folder and checks to see if it exists, and naturally it does
 > (because it just did it) and then prompts if it needs to be overwritten
 > / or states that it allready exists...

 > So I've searched through the documents and i couldn't find reference to
 > anything similar to this problem, so I'm assuming it's a bug, and I hope
 > I brought it to the right group's attention, if not, I'm sorry and would
 > like to be notified where i may send this query to.
 >
 > Thank You
 > Angelo (abricko at NOSPAM.mediaone.net)
 >
 > version info: Samba 2.07 running on a Redhat 7 (2.2.16-22)





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