[Samba] How to delete NON-EMPTY directories through a Samba share?

[Sandor Balogh]

Hi,

The shared folder is owned by root:products_admin
drwxrwsr-x    2 root     products_admins     4096 Feb 13 07:56 data

This directory contains another directory created through his samba share
drwxrwsr-x    2 bas      products_admins     4096 Feb 14 09:08
a_new_directory

As you can see, the directory is owned by user bas (that would be me) and by
the group products_admin.
User bas is member of group products_admin.

The content of directory a_new_directory:
-rwxrwxr-x    1 bas      products_admins     6769 Dec 12 10:14 softice.txt

I am trying to delete the directory with the same user bas, but this only
succeeds when the directory is empty. Still I can rename it independently of
it's content.

I know that in UNIX world, you can delete a folder which has some contents,
only if you delete it's contents recursively. This should be specified in
command line using option -R (-r). By default UNIX does not ask you if you
want to delete the content of the directory. It's just give you an error
message saying that wht are you trying to delete is a directory (he thinks
that you don't kno that :))  I think here is the same kind of problem.

Thanks,
Sandor


On 2/14/06, Louis van Belle <louis at van-belle.nl> wrote:
>
> most likely the rights ( owner ) of the folder is not
> the users u used to deleted.
>
> This is not but, just a rights problem.
>
> Louis
>
>
> >-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> >Van: samba-bounces+louis=van-belle.nl at lists.samba.org
> >[mailto: samba-bounces+louis=van-belle.nl at lists.samba.org]
> >Namens Sandor Balogh
> >Verzonden: maandag 13 februari 2006 17:31
> >Aan: samba at lists.samba.org
> >Onderwerp: [Samba] How to delete NON-EMPTY directories through
> >a Samba share?
> >
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I have setup a Samba server as file and print server. Everything works
> >perfectly, I can print, I can write, delete files through
> >Samba. But, the
> >only thing that does not work is to delete a NON-EMPTY
> >directory. No error
> >message received, just don't want to delete it. As soon as I delete all
> >files from the directory, then the directory can be deleted
> >too. The problem
> >is recursive for subdirectories. Just think how awful is to delete a
> >directory with lots of subdirectories. I don't think it's a permission
> >problem (it can't be) and I could't find any posts on this
> >problem over the
> >internet.
> >
> >Thanks for help,
> >Sandor
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