samba - May 2001 - PC-Netlink access by smbclient failed

Hi,

has anybody experience with accessing a PC-Netlink server with
a samba client? We can read files but writing is problematic.
Sun claims that this is a samba problem but since PC-Netlink
emulates an NT server and access to this is just fine I wonder
if we just missed the point.

In detail:

pcnlserver: Solaris 2.7 with PC-netlink vs. 1.2 patch level 110179-4

On a Linux notebook we got samba-2.0.7-105.src.rpm (e.g.) 
and
mount -t smbfs -o rw,dmask=777,username=testuser,workgroup=testgroup
//pcnlserver/testuser\$ /home/testuser/samba

gives us:
> ls -al samba/rr*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root            0 May  2 16:02 samba/rrr
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root            0 May  2 16:03 samba/rrrr
testuser@toshiba:~ > rm samba/rrrr
> rm: cannot unlink `samba/rrrrr': Permission denied
testuser@toshiba:~ > touch samba/rrrr
testuser@toshiba:~ > touch samba/rrrrr
> touch: samba/rrrrr: Permission denied
>

Andreas Huck wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> has anybody experience with accessing a PC-Netlink server with
> a samba client? We can read files but writing is problematic.
> Sun claims that this is a samba problem but since PC-Netlink
> emulates an NT server and access to this is just fine I wonder
> if we just missed the point.
Upgrade to 2.2.0. There were several bugs fixed with respect to
PC-netlink

herb

On Fri, 4 May 2001, Andreas Huck wrote:
> On a Linux notebook we got samba-2.0.7-105.src.rpm (e.g.) 
> and
> mount -t smbfs -o rw,dmask=777,username=testuser,workgroup=testgroup
//pcnlserver/testuser\$ /home/testuser/samba
Using the name smbclient in the subject is confusing when you are actually
talking about smbfs. However you could test if removing the file works
from smbclient (from samba-2.2.0).
> > ls -al samba/rr*
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root            0 May  2 16:02 samba/rrr
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root            0 May  2 16:03 samba/rrrr
> testuser@toshiba:~ > rm samba/rrrr
> > rm: cannot unlink `samba/rrrrr': Permission denied
> testuser@toshiba:~ > touch samba/rrrr
> testuser@toshiba:~ > touch samba/rrrrr
> > touch: samba/rrrrr: Permission denied
> >  
you rm "samba/rrrr" and then it complains about
"samba/rrrrr" ???


One idea is that this is actually a permission problem. I don't know who
has which permission on the samba/ directory on the server. For your
commands to work testuser needs write permission there, and on the files.
Note that the permissions smbfs reports has nothing to do with this.

Note the ownership and permissions of samba/rrrr on the linux side. They
are owned by root and are not writeable by anyone else. You run as
testuser(?) and are of course not allowed to remove files owned by root.
I don't know why you can't create rrrrr, though.


If that is not it, check for any kernel messages. Perhaps smbfs will be
able to say someting about what the server returned. If you are not
running a 2.2.18/19 or 2.4.x kernel, try upgrading.


Finally, NFS may be a better way to share files between Linux <-> Solaris
...

/Urban