[Samba] Renaming Folder With Open File

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Fri Jan 7 16:37:39 UTC 2022


On Fri, 2022-01-07 at 10:33 -0600, Robert A Wooldridge via samba wrote:
> On 1/7/22 10:22, Ralph Boehme via samba wrote:
> > On 1/7/22 17:04, Robert A Wooldridge via samba wrote:
> > > I have set strict rename = yes in my smb.conf file.  The problem
> > > is 
> > > still there.   No warning given when renaming a folder with a
> > > file in 
> > > it open.  Any other ideas?
> > 
> > that would be a bug. How have you made sure the client picks up
> > the 
> > config change?
> 
> I used two different computers and two different users. I signed out
> and 
> then signed back in after changes were made.
> 
> 
> I did not restart samba after changing the strict rename setting, is 
> that necessary?

If you change smb.conf, you must reload the config or restart Samba,
the changes will not be pickup otherwise.

Rowland






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