[Samba] XP not obeying Samba file perms

[John Drescher]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Rob Mason <rob.mason at acasta.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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>
>

Do a smbstatus on the server when the problem happens. The files could
be locked.

John