samba - Mar 2005 - Re.: Strange Samba Problem

We do have exactly the same problem. Is this already solved?

cheers
Reimar


>Running SuSE 9.2. This problem happens with both the SuSE-supplied Samba on 
>the DVD, as well as the SuSE update rpms to 3.0.9. We even removed all the 
>*.tdb files and recreated the installation from scratch, as always carefully
>following the steps in S3BE. FWIW, this same config worked previously on
this
>and earlier systems; we did not change anything on this system (other than 
>applying YOU patches), and since we fire the Windows VM infrequently, we 
>can't correlate when this problem started with any specific YOU
patches..
>Basically, we use Samba on a host to make printers and shares available to 
>Windows running on the same host in a VMware VM. We don't want anyone
else on
>the LAN to see shares on this host.
>The problem manifests itself in several ways: 
>1. MS Office applications complain a file is either locked by another user 
and 
>can be opened read-only, or that a file no longer exists.
>2. Using the MS Explorer window to CTRL-C and CTRL-V a file in the same 
folder 
>generates no errors, but the copied file has a file size of 0 bytes.
>3. RMB'ing in the MS Explorer window to choose Create New > Folder
winds up
>creating the New Folder correctly, but generating a dialog box that reads: 
>"Unable to create the folder "New Folder." Cannot create a
file when that
>file already exists."
>I've run a level 10 debug and didn't see anything intuitively
obvious, but
>I'm 
>not a Samba developer!  :-)  Here's smb.conf below. Any ideas? Things to
try?
>Printing works fine BTW, if that's helpful.



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On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 07:27:54PM +0100, Reimar Bauer wrote:
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> We do have exactly the same problem. Is this already solved?
> 
> cheers
> Reimar
> 
> 
> 
> >Running SuSE 9.2. This problem happens with both the SuSE-supplied
Samba on
> >the DVD, as well as the SuSE update rpms to 3.0.9. We even removed all
the
> >*.tdb files and recreated the installation from scratch, as always
carefully
> >following the steps in S3BE. FWIW, this same config worked previously
on this
> >and earlier systems; we did not change anything on this system (other
than
> >applying YOU patches), and since we fire the Windows VM infrequently,
we
> >can't correlate when this problem started with any specific YOU
patches..
> 
> >Basically, we use Samba on a host to make printers and shares available
to
> >Windows running on the same host in a VMware VM. We don't want
anyone else on
> >the LAN to see shares on this host.
> 
> >The problem manifests itself in several ways: 
> 
> >1. MS Office applications complain a file is either locked by another
user
> and 
> >can be opened read-only, or that a file no longer exists.
I think the MS-Office problems are fixed in the 3.0.12 pre release Jerry is
about
to ship.

Jeremy.