[Samba] Problems deleting directories on smbmounted partitions

[Mike Samba]

We had a similiar problem with roaming profiles.  It seemed to be caused
from a difference in the time on the two machine.  Once we synchronized
the times, the directory deletetion worked flawlessly!!

On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 18:09, Andreas Lundin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having some odd problems with samba in combination with fam. On my linux 
> system I have mounted some partitions that are shared by a Win2k machine on 
> my LAN. With any GUI filemanager using fam I can create files and 
> directories, but I can't delete directories, only files. If I try to delete a 
> directory, it just doesn't work. If I try to delete a directory containing 
> files, the files will be deleted  but not the directory. I've tried different 
> GUI filemanagers and the only one that returns an informative error message 
> is nautilus which tells me the directory is "busy", so I guess fam somehow 
> thinks the directory is used 
> by some other process.
> 
> If I turn of fam, or use the console, I can delete the directories without 
> problems. The problem occurs only on samba shares, this problem doesn't 
> appear in my regular linux file system or on the local windows partitions I 
> have mounted. So it seems to be a problem related to fam working together with 
> samba (or maybe rather smbmount).
> 
> I have tried fam 2.6.7, 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 with samba 2.2.8a on two different 
> machine and all with the same error.
> 
> I mount the shares with the following line in /etc/fstab
> 
> //moya/180gxp1$     /mnt/180gxp1        smbfs 
> fmask=775,dmask=775,dmask=0,gid=100,users,rw
> 
> Is this a known problem, or am I making some glaring error?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> //Andreas