[Samba] hosting library (ie. PVCS) on Samba

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 02:07:35PM -0400, webster at lexmark.com wrote:
> 
> 1)  use 'store dos attributes' in smb.conf , so that the 'read-only' bit 
> is kept in EAs, rather than removing the 'w' Unix permission bit for UGO . 
>  User2 has 'rwx' access to the file through their primary group.  When 
> User2 tries to remove the 'read-only' bit from the file, smbd hangs hard. 
> I can't even kill the process, nor do an 'ls' in the local directory where 
> the archive file lives.  I receive this in log.smbd: 
> smbd/nttrans.c:call_nt_transact_ioctl(2076)  \ 
> call_nt_transact_ioctl(0x90028): Currently not implemented.
> I've tried this with 'dos filemode' set to both yes & no, with no 
> difference in the result.

This is the correct fix. When you say it "hangs hard" what exactly do
you mean ? Is it unkillable via kill -9 ? What does strace say ? Sounds
like a kernel EA bug. What filesystem are you using ?

Jeremy.