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

[Michael Gasch]

try increasing the debug level and post error message

greez

Sandor Balogh wrote:
> 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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