Who else can reproduce this problem?

[junkmail at tomcat.umsl.edu]

I truely believe I've stumbled across a bug deleting directories.  The
bug is either with Windows 2000 or with Samba 2.2.1a and 2.2.2.  I'd
tend to think it was a Windows bug except that the problem does not
occur against earlier versions of Samba.

I've duplicated this problem deleting directories to Samba versions
2.2.2 and 2.2.1a in various configurations running on several
different Sparc/Solaris platforms and today I built Samba 2.2.2 on a
I386/Redhat 7 platform and can still produce the same problem under
this very different architecture.  This problem is four for four from
the four Windows 2000 machines I've tried.

I'm running Windows 2000 SP2 and all the other various updates, I
believe all four Windows 2000 systems I've tested with are at SP2 so I
don't know if it happens with Windows 2000 SP1, it does NOT happen
using a Windows 98 SE system nor does the problem happen from Windows
2000 SP2 to Samba servers of version 2.0.9.

Some of you PLEASE try to reproduce this and post your results.  The
problem is as such. I've tried to be as detailed as possible.  Please
try to follow my instructions exactly.

Using Windows Explorer, Explore a drive mapped to Samba share or just
explore the share itself, it doesn't really need to be mapped.  The
key is to be exploring it it in Windows Explorer.

Ok, so you're in Windows Explorer exploring a Samba share or drive
mapped to a Samba share.  The problem is in deleting a folder.  If
there isn't a folder you can delete, make one.

On the left pane of Windows Explorer you've got all the little yellow
folders and plus signs next to them so you can expand them, and then
the contents of the current folder are displayed in the right pane.

IN THE LEFT PANE, left click once on the folder you want to delete.
Its name will be highlighted and THE LITTLE YELLOW FOLDER ICON JUST TO
THE LEFT OF ITS NAME WILL BE OPEN and the contents of the folder are
displayed in the right pane.

Press the delete key on the keyboard or pointing at the folder name in
the left pane press the right mouse button and select delete from the
drop down menu.

Everything (if anything) in the folder will be deleted but not the
folder itself.  You'll get "Error Deleting File or Folder, Cannot
remove folder xxxx: Access is denied, the souce file may be in use." 
Click OK so the error goes away, then try deleting the folder a second
time and it will then delete.

I've tried everything I can think of to narrow down or find a reason
for this, both on the Samba side and the Windows 2000 side.  All to no
avail.

So, who else can reproduce this?

Thankyou,

Tom Schaefer

Unix Administrator, University of Missouri St. Louis