[Samba] unable to write to a share

Yvan Vander Sanden yvan at youngmusic.org
Fri Mar 14 11:58:03 GMT 2008


Hi.

I moved my samba installation to another server yesterday because the
old one had a hardware issue. Since then, users can read their home
directories, but get a message like 'parts of this file are already
accessed by another program' when they try to save something on the
share. (The actual error message is in dutch, so this is a rough
translation. It's error code 33, but i cannot find an English equivalent
either.)

The smb.conf file is the same as the one on the old server. This is the
definition of [homes]:

[homes]
        comment = %U's Home Directory
        valid users = %S
        read only = No
        create mask = 0664
        directory mask = 0775


I'm quite sure the users' rights on their homedir are ok, because if I
su to a user I can write something in his home directory from a Linux
console. It is even possible to write to the share if I make a samba
connection from a Linux machine with nautilus. 

Only when using windows, i get the error message, and nothing is saved.
I can make an empty text document though. It gets saved on the server.
But when I open it and try to save it with even only one character in
it, it won't work.

I hope someone has any idea of what is happening here. Thanks for
reading anyway.

yvan vander sanden




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