Package: samba Version: 2:3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze8 Severity: normal I'd like to mention that it's as well impossible to delete such broken symlinks even if you created them yourself:
user@client:~/share$ mount | grep share //server/files/ on /home/user/share type cifs (rw,mand) user@client:~/share$ ls -l total 0 user@client:~/share$ touch a user@client:~/share$ ln -s a b user@client:~/share$ ln -s /etc/passwd c ln: creating symbolic link `c': Permission denied user@client:~/share$ ls -l ls: cannot read symbolic link c: Permission denied total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 user default_user 0 May 11 10:05 a lrwxrwxrwx 1 user default_user 1 May 11 10:05 b -> a lrwxrwxrwx 1 user default_user 11 May 11 10:05 c user@client:~/share$ rm a b c rm: cannot remove `c': Permission denied user@client:~/share$ ls -l ls: cannot read symbolic link c: Permission denied total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 user default_user 11 May 11 10:05 c user@client:~/share$ rm c rm: cannot remove `c': Permission denied user@client:~/share$ ls -l ls: cannot access c: Permission denied total 0 l????????? ? ? ? ? ? c user@client:~/share$ You can only clean it up on the server side... Regards, Frank -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages samba depends on: ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf- 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy ii libacl1 2.2.49-4 Access control list shared library ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-2 Extended attribute shared library ii libc6 2.11.3-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcap2 1:2.19-3 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libcomerr2 1.41.12-4stable1 common error description library ii libcups2 1.4.4-7+squeeze1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k ii libk5crypto3 1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - C ii libkrb5-3 1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.23-7.2 OpenLDAP libraries ii libpam-modules 1.1.1-6.1+squeeze1 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam-runtime 1.1.1-6.1+squeeze1 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 1.1.1-6.1+squeeze1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpopt0 1.16-1 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libtalloc2 2.0.1-1 hierarchical pool based memory all ii libwbclient0 2:3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze8 Samba winbind client library ii lsb-base 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii procps 1:3.2.8-9 /proc file system utilities ii samba-common 2:3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze8 common files used by both the Samb ii update-inetd 4.38+nmu1+squeeze1 inetd configuration file updater ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime Versions of packages samba recommends: ii logrotate 3.7.8-6 Log rotation utility Versions of packages samba suggests: pn ctdb <none> (no description available) pn ldb-tools <none> (no description available) pn openbsd-inetd | inet-superser <none> (no description available) pn smbldap-tools <none> (no description available) -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
