[Samba] XP not obeying Samba file perms

[Rob Mason]

Hi List,

I have an unusual problem concerning the Windows  XP "Rotate" image
explorer shell extension.  I have a share called "Archives" defined with
a number of sub-directories.  Whilst I have read/write permission to all
directories, I am unable to use the Windows XP "Rotate Clockwise" or
"Rotate Counter Clockwise" image command on JPG's contained within those
directories - error is "file may be in use or directory may be read
only".  That is, until I read the files into Photoshop and write them
back out again.  Then the "Rotate" shell extension works!  During this
process there is no change whatsoever to the file and dir perms either
on the filesystem (FreeBSD) or those reported by Windows - they appear
identical before and after Photoshop intervention.

So my question is how to trouble shoot this, and, what may be causing
this unusual problem?

Samba version is 3.5.6

[albums]
        comment = Mason family archive
        path = /usr/local/archive
        write list = mason, root
        guest ok = Yes


Filesystem perms ->
-----------------------------

drwxr-xr-x  28 mason  wheel   -   512 Feb 20 10:08 archive/

drwxr-xr-x   4 mason  wheel  -  512 Dec 19  2009 ./
drwxr-xr-x  28 mason  wheel  -  512 Feb 20 10:08 ../
drwxr-xr-x  18 mason  wheel  - 1024 Mar 13 10:42 Mason/
drwxr-xr-x   2 mason  wheel  -  512 Mar 12 10:40 Wagstaff/

drwxr-xr-x   4 mason  wheel  -  512 Mar 13 10:41 1979 - France -
Argeles-sur-Mer/

-rw-r--r--   1 mason  wheel  -    8192 Mar 13 10:39 Thumbs.db
-rw-r--r--   1 mason  wheel  - 2393243 Mar 12 18:06 Untitled-10.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 mason  wheel  - 2236064 Mar 12 19:33 Untitled-11.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 mason  wheel  - 2441339 Mar 12 19:38 Untitled-12.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 mason  wheel  - 2115890 Mar 12 19:45 Untitled-13.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 mason  wheel  - 2113096 Mar 12 19:49 Untitled-14.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 mason  wheel  - 2507137 Mar 12 19:54 Untitled-15.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 mason  wheel  - 2312662 Mar 12 19:59 Untitled-16.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 mason  wheel  - 2346841 Mar 12 20:04 Untitled-17.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 mason  wheel  - 2583152 Mar 12 20:09 Untitled-18.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 mason  wheel  - 2447956 Mar 12 20:14 Untitled-19.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 mason  wheel  - 2222166 Mar 12 20:19 Untitled-20.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 mason  wheel  - 2549045 Mar 12 20:24 Untitled-21.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 mason  wheel  - 2155071 Mar 12 20:28 Untitled-22.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 mason  wheel  - 2228869 Mar 12 20:34 Untitled-23.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 mason  wheel  - 1957951 Mar 12 20:38 Untitled-24.jpg




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