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

[Sandor Balogh]

Hi Michael

The problem was resolved, actually there was no problem with samba
The problem was with my Windows Commander 5.11. It just cant delete
non-empty directories over samba.
But Windows Explorer can do that. So I'm happy.
Maybe newer versions of Windows Commanders (Total Commander) can do that.

Thanks alot


On 2/15/06, Michael Gasch <gasch at eva.mpg.de> wrote:
>
> 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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