[Samba] Creating a write-only drop box

[Daniel Davidson]

Oops Samba version 3.0.28-0.el4.9

Dan


On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 09:39 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 10:35:31AM -0600, Daniel Davidson wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have historically had drop boxes available to my users, and after a
> > samba upgrade, I am now experiencing trouble with those.
> > 
> > Each user home directory, linux path /file-server/home/a-m/$username
> > server path \\file-server\users\a-m\$user, has a drop directory with
> > path /file-server/home/a-m/drop/$username.  This directory has a
> > symbolic link named drop in their home directory.  Permissions on
> > the /file-server/home/a-m/drop/$username folder are 2773.  The idea here
> > is that users can transfer large files (GB in size) amongst themselves.
> > 
> > [users]
> >         path = /file-server/home
> >         follow symlinks = yes   
> >         wide links = yes        
> >         writeable = yes         
> >         inherit permissions = yes
> >         block size = 4096
> > 
> > We recently did a long awaited upgrade to our system that in part
> > involved upgrading samba, and now our drop directories seem broken, as
> > in we can no longer drop anything into them.
> 
> Upgraded to which version of Samba please ?
> 
> Jeremy.