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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

Christopher and the list: Gee... I wish it would! My probelm currently is the fact that if I add this line to /etc/exports: /mnt/MountedSambaShare somebox(nohide) I get: somebox:/mnt/MountesSambaShare: Invalid argument This happens whether /etc/exports says "somebox(nohide)" or "somebox(ro)" or "somebox()". Note that /mnt/MounteSambaShare is in fact

Okay, admittedly I'm running an old version 2.0.5, but, why do I have to set the eXecute permission in Linux before Samba will let a Windows client see any files? Why would execute have anything to do with read and/or write? I would think I could set -rw-rw---- or -rw-rw-rw- and be just fine, but oh no, you get an empty list and cannot create new files until I change it to -rwxrwx--- or

...00 0f 85 d7 00 00 00 8b 82 At some point the machine crashes with an entry as above and the only way to recover is to do a hard shutdown (ouch!) If any additional info is needed please let me know. -- Ken Schneider Senior UNIX Administrator Network Administrator Radiation Therapy Services, Inc. kschneider-AT-rtsx.com

You can force all users to be recognized as a single user. Set permissions on the directory to drwxrwsrws nobody nobody /home/technical [Technical] comment = Technical browseable = yes path = /home/technical valid users = +users force create mode = 0777 fforce directory mode = 0777 force user = nobody force group = nobody Works good for me . . . Calvin Gordon IT Guy; Nu-Fab Burton LP