[Samba] files being blanked by writing

[Jason Joines]

	I'm running Samba 2.2.8a on SuSE Linux 8.1 with kernel 2.4.19.  I have 
a share defined by this on a web server to allow members of the jamigos 
group to edit web pages.

[users]
         comment = User Web Pages
         path = /home
         valid users = @jamigos
         read only = No
         create mask = 0664
         force create mode = 0664
         directory mask = 0775
         force directory mode = 0775
         browseable = No

	I received a few complaints of save errors followed by missing web 
pages so I decided to check it out.  Via this share, I opened the file 
/home/wasdnord/public_html/4133/1RIGHT.HTM with Mozilla.  Here were the 
permissions at the filesystem level ahead of time.  The group jamigos is 
one of my supplementary groups.

drwxrwsr-x+   2 wasdnord    jamigos       104 Sep 21 11:38 ../4133 and 
stat shows permissions of 2775.
-rw-rw-r--+   1 wasdnord    jamigos      2334 Oct 16  2003 1RIGHT.HTM
and stat shows 0664.

	I made a small change, added a word to the bottom of the file, and 
tried to save it.  This gave me the rather generic error of "Saving File 
failed!" via Mozilla Composer.  I looked at the file on the server to 
see this:
-rw-rw-r--+   1 wasdnord    jamigos         0 Sep 21 12:00 1RIGHT.HTM
	What was being reported to me as missing pages was actually files 
having their contents erased.

	I deleted the file and saved again, this time with no problems yielding:
-rw-rw-r--+   1 joines   jamigos      2626 Sep 21 12:19 1RIGHT.HTM.

	It's not an issue of file permissions as I can make the changes with vi 
directly on the filesystme with no problem.  It's not an editor issue as 
I tried both Mozilla and Kate on Linux whereas the problems reported to 
me were with a wide variety of editors including frontpage on windows. 
Once I own the file, it all works as expected.

	Just before trying this I turned the log level up to 3 and here's what 
I got:

[2004/09/21 11:59:43, 3] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(111) 
unix_mode(wasdnord/public_html/4133/1RIGHT.HTM) returning 0664
[2004/09/21 11:59:43, 3] 
smbd/oplock_linux.c:linux_set_kernel_oplock(186) 
linux_set_kernel_oplock: got kernel oplock on file 
wasdnord/public_html/4133/1RIGHT.HTM, dev = 805, inode = 8439294, 
file_id = 435
[2004/09/21 11:59:43, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(247) joines opened file 
wasdnord/public_html/dnor.jpg read=Yes write=No (numopen=1)
[2004/09/21 12:00:02, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(247) joines opened file 
wasdnord/public_html/4133/1RIGHT.HTM read=Yes write=Yes (numopen=1)
[2004/09/21 12:00:02, 3] smbd/trans2.c:call_trans2setfilepathinfo(2394) 
call_trans2setfilepathinfo(6) wasdnord/public_html/4133/1RIGHT.HTM 
info_level=1004 totdata=40
[2004/09/21 12:00:02, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(94) error string = 
Operation not permitted
[2004/09/21 12:00:02, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(113) error packet at 
smbd/trans2.c(2859) cmd=50 (SMBtrans2) NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED

	Naturally, there was tons of other stuff in the log at this level so 
I'm not even sure if these errors in the log are related to this 
particular problem.

	Any ideas?

Thanks,

Jason Joines
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