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

[Frederic DEFFERRARD/FR/ALCATEL]

Hi,

I our case, the problem only occurred with directory
(file manipulation 'n creation is OK). Thus samba is only
giving a error message but finaly the directory is created and
totally usable.

freD.

Bill Moran wrote:

> Hopefully this is the same problem I've seen elsewhere (i.e. NFS &
> Netatalk)
> In these cases is it a permissions thing. Under NFS it was caused by
> creating a file on a NFS mount with option "mapall=nobody" This caused
> the file to be created with perms rwxr-xr-x as user nobody. But the
> creater of the file was not logged in as "nobody" and therefore no
> longer had write access to the file. (Thus, could not save over it,
> delete, etc) Very confusing to the average user.
> Under Netatalk, you get behaviour very similar to what you've described
> below. You can read about it here:
> http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/faq.php#2.2
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Bill
> 
> Frederic DEFFERRARD/FR/ALCATEL wrote:
> 
>> no sorry the problem is still existing for us.
>> (now Samba 2.0.8)
>> freD.
>> 
>> Mike Fedyk wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 07:07:10PM +0200, Frederic DEFFERRARD/FR/ALCATEL wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 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
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi, I'm having this problem too, and this is on 2.08 and 2.2.19 on x86 and
>>> ppc.
>>> 
>>> Did you get any resolution to this problem?
>>> 
>>> Mike
>> 
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