We have users who have their desktop folders on a Samba share. Some of them have been getting "Delayed Write Failure" messages recently on the "cookies/index.dat" file. At first I thought it was a fluke related to a network outage we experienced, but now I'm finding out it had been happening previously. This is Samba 2.2.5 on SuSE Linux SLES7 on S/390. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.
> We have Windows XP users who have their desktop folders on a Samba share. Some of them have been getting "Delayed Write Failure" messages recently on the "cookies/index.dat" file. At first I > thought it was a fluke related to a network outage we experienced, but now I'm finding out it had been happening previously, and it's still going on. > > This is Samba 2.2.5 on SuSE Linux SLES7 on S/390. > > Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks. >One respondent suggested giving all users admin authority to the share, but that's not acceptable for a number of reasons, and since the problem isn't consistent, I don't see why this would help or be necessary.
Not an option for the time being. Does anyone have an idea why this is happening? I don't see why permissions would be an issue for this situation and no other, especially given that the users aren't having trouble with any other files.> -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Schneider [mailto:kschneider@rtsx.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 9:51 AM > To: 'samba@lists.samba.org' > Subject: Re: [Samba] Delayed Write failures with Windows XP > > > Or you could try the follwing link: > > http://acl.bestbits.at/ > > Extended ACL's helped with this type of problem here. > > > On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 09:38, Hall, Ken (ECSS) wrote: > > > We have Windows XP users who have their desktop folders > on a Samba share. Some of them have been getting "Delayed > Write Failure" messages recently on the "cookies/index.dat" > file. At first I > > > thought it was a fluke related to a network outage we > experienced, but now I'm finding out it had been happening > previously, and it's still going on. > > > > > > This is Samba 2.2.5 on SuSE Linux SLES7 on S/390. > > > > > > Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks. > > > > > One respondent suggested giving all users admin authority > to the share, but that's not acceptable for a number of > reasons, and since the problem isn't consistent, I don't see > why this would help or be > > necessary. > > > -- > Ken Schneider > Senior UNIX Administrator > Network Administrator > kschneider@rtsx.com > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >
We have Windows XP users who have their desktop folders on a Samba share. It appears that all or most of them are getting "delayed write failure" errors on "cookies/index.dat". Nothing shows in the log, and the error is consistent, even when we delete the file from the server. This is Samba 2.2.7 on SuSE Linux SLES7 on S/390. I've had it suggested that this is permission-related, and that giving admin permission to the users would solve it, but this is unacceptable for security and quota reasons. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can either fix it, or at least figure out what's going on? Thanks.