samba - Jan 2001 - BUG: Creating New Folders On SMB (VFAT) Mounted drive

I have a drive being shared with smb (it's a vfat drive, btw) and
whenever I go to create a new folder from any of the clients to that
shared drive, it gives me a message that the folder allready exists, but
it still does create a new folder, and then i have to rename "new
folder" to whatever I want, same goes with copying/moving folders, it
says the folder allready exists (when it does not) then asks if i want
to overwrite it.
    It seems like when you send a request to the SMB mounted (VFAT)
drive, it creates the folder then gets confused / or forgets it created
the folder and checks to see if it exists, and naturally it does
(because it just did it) and then prompts if it needs to be overwritten
/ or states that it allready exists...

So I've searched through the documents and i couldn't find reference to
anything similar to this problem, so I'm assuming it's a bug, and I hope
I brought it to the right group's attention, if not, I'm sorry and would
like to be notified where i may send this query to.

Thank You
Angelo (abricko@mediaone.net)

version info: Samba 2.07 running on a Redhat 7 (2.2.16-22)

Hi,

They have the same problem trying to create a new directory into a "novell 
ncpmount" share.

The system responds "unable to create the folder ..., Cannot create a file
when
that file already exists", but this new folder is finaly created.

version info: Samba 2.07 running on a Suse 2.2.16

freD.

 > I have a drive being shared with smb (it's a vfat drive, btw) and
 > whenever I go to create a new folder from any of the clients to that
 > shared drive, it gives me a message that the folder allready exists, but
 > it still does create a new folder, and then i have to rename "new
 > folder" to whatever I want, same goes with copying/moving folders, it
 > says the folder allready exists (when it does not) then asks if i want
 > to overwrite it.
 >     It seems like when you send a request to the SMB mounted (VFAT)
 > drive, it creates the folder then gets confused / or forgets it created
 > the folder and checks to see if it exists, and naturally it does
 > (because it just did it) and then prompts if it needs to be overwritten
 > / or states that it allready exists...

 > So I've searched through the documents and i couldn't find
reference to
 > anything similar to this problem, so I'm assuming it's a bug, and
I hope
 > I brought it to the right group's attention, if not, I'm sorry and
would
 > like to be notified where i may send this query to.
 >
 > Thank You
 > Angelo (abricko@NOSPAM.mediaone.net)
 >
 > version info: Samba 2.07 running on a Redhat 7 (2.2.16-22)

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:51:33PM -0700, Angelo wrote:
> i'm sure it's not the safest thing to do, but if you're running
a private
> network within your home i think it's ok... change the user name from
nobody
> to root, do that in the samba web administration program under the advanced
> options of the share, and it works fine after that...
Oh, great!  It's just a mac to share zip drives, root won't matter if
it's
compromized. I'll do my best to keep the rest secure, only samba & ssh.
:)

Mike