Who else can reproduce this problem?

[Oliver Six]

<junkmail at tomcat.umsl.edu> wrote on 26.11.2001 18:14:26:

>
>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
>
>
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Hi Tom,

I can reproduce this. But I think "it's not a bug it's a feature". Because 
the folder you want to delete is open (in the right pane), you cannot 
delete it. Try to rightclick an _unselected_ folder and delete it - this 
will work, even in the left pane of explorer. It's like formating a floppy..
. 

Ciao Oliver
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