samba - Sep 2003 - delete file problem with samba

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This may be an artifact of the way Windows/UNIX differ in file deletion.
In UNIX, you can delete a file that is open, and the file will remain
readable by the process, but the moment that process closes the file, it
is deleted. Deleting the directory (which for UNIX is a special file)
from the left hand pane may leave an open file handle for it (the right
hand pane is looking at it, too). If it works, I'd just ignore it for now.

Hope this makes some sense, as I am getting tired....

- -Tom

Joseph Yuen wrote:
| I am running samba 2.2.8a on FreeBSD 4.8. I installed that from the
FreeBSD
| port tree.
|
| In IE, when I try to delete a directory which contains subdirectories
in it,
| it will pop up a Windows dialog saying that,
|
| Cannot remove folder foldername: Cannot find the specified file.
| Make sure you specify the correct path and file name.
|
| However, if you click on the Okay button on that Windows error dialog and
| refresh the IE,
| you'll find that in fact the folder and the subfolders under it are all
| removed.
| On the FreeBSD, this is the error msg from samba,
|
| smbd/trans2.c: set_delete_on_close_over_all(2214)
| set_delete_on_close_internal: failed to change delete on close flag
for file
| thefoldername
|
| Note that this *ONLY* happens when I try to delete the directory from the
| tree
| on the left frame of IE.
| If I try to delete the directory from the right side frame of IE, i.e. the
| file listing frame,
| it'll be completely fine, no problem at all.
|
| I am using WindowsXP with all the patches installed.
|
| Can any expert here tell me that whether this is a samba configuration
| problem or it's a bug of samba?
|
| Thanks in advance.
|
| K.C.
|
|
|
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I am running samba 2.2.8a on FreeBSD 4.8. I installed that from the FreeBSD
port tree.

In IE, when I try to delete a directory which contains subdirectories in it,
it will pop up a Windows dialog saying that,

Cannot remove folder foldername: Cannot find the specified file.
Make sure you specify the correct path and file name.

However, if you click on the Okay button on that Windows error dialog and
refresh the IE,
you'll find that in fact the folder and the subfolders under it are all
removed.
On the FreeBSD, this is the error msg from samba,

smbd/trans2.c: set_delete_on_close_over_all(2214)
set_delete_on_close_internal: failed to change delete on close flag for file
thefoldername

Note that this *ONLY* happens when I try to delete the directory from the
tree
on the left frame of IE.
If I try to delete the directory from the right side frame of IE, i.e. the
file listing frame,
it'll be completely fine, no problem at all.

I am using WindowsXP with all the patches installed.

Can any expert here tell me that whether this is a samba configuration
problem or it's a bug of samba?

Thanks in advance.

K.C.

Although I'm no expert by a longshot, if I had to guess, I'd say it
sounds like a bug with IE/Explorer

On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 23:46, Joseph Yuen wrote:
> smbd/trans2.c: set_delete_on_close_over_all(2214)
> set_delete_on_close_internal: failed to change delete on close flag for
file
> thefoldername
> 
> Note that this *ONLY* happens when I try to delete the directory from the
> tree
> on the left frame of IE.
> If I try to delete the directory from the right side frame of IE, i.e. the
> file listing frame,
> it'll be completely fine, no problem at all.
>