Just an update on this - I removed Samba 2.2.7 from the RH8 system and reinstalled it using the Samba 2.2.1a-4 version from my Redhat 7.2 CDs, and the problem has miraculously disappeared...
So what got broken between 2.2.1a-4 and 2.2.7-2? Kier > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Kier Darby > Sent: 13 March 2003 16:47 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Samba] Bizarre problem - happens only under XP and not 2000 > > > I have a very strange problem, which no one has been able to fathom to > this point so I'm hoping that someone here may have encountered > something similar. I'd better note down some background details first. > > Relevant machines involved: > Win2K Adv. Server SP3 (acting as Active Directory primary) > Win2K Pro SP3 (authenticates against Win2K server above) > WinXP Pro SP1 (authenticates against Win2K server above) > Redhat 7.2 running Samba 2.2.1a in 'domain' mode (password > server is Win2K server) > Redhat 8.0 running Samba 2.2.7 in 'domain' mode (password server > is Win2K server) > > Here is the background of what I am trying to do. There is a > CVS module > for a project I develop checked out on both of the Redhat machines, > which I manage using TortoiseCVS on the WinXP machine. Until > this week I > was running only the RH7.2 machine and had no problems at > all, but this > machine has got a little long in the tooth and so I built a > new machine > to run RH8. > > All the Windows machines are logged in using the same Active Directory > user, and I can access the shares on both Samba servers via > Win2K and XP > with no problems, and have full read/write/delete permissions. > > However, when I run a CVS update or checkout using the WinXP > machine on > the RH8 box, I get lots of errors reporting that some directories that > were removed from the CVS module a long time ago could not be > deleted as > they are not empty. Running the same update on the RH8 machine using > either of the Win2K boxes goes through with no errors. > Running the same > CVS update on the RH7.2 machine with any of the Windows machines does > not produce the error. > > This is what the CVS update ~should~ look like: > > ******************************************************************** > In \\plasma\home\kier\vb2: cvs -q update -d -P > CVSROOT=:pserver:{username}:{repository} > > ? language > ? admin/spellcheck > ? images/afp > ? images/avatars > ? images/styles/new/images > > Success, CVS operation completed > ******************************************************************** > > And this is what it looks like when I run the same thing on the XP box > with the Samba 2.2.7 machine: > > ******************************************************************** > In \\plasma\home\kier\vb2: cvs -q update -d -P > CVSROOT=:pserver:{username}:{repository} > > ? language > ? admin/spellcheck > ? images/afp > ? images/avatars > ? images/styles/new/images > cvs update: cannot remove language: Directory not empty > cvs update: cannot remove images/styles/new/images: Directory > not empty > cvs update: cannot remove images/avatars: Directory not empty > cvs update: cannot remove images/afp: Directory not empty > cvs update: cannot remove admin/spellcheck: Directory not empty > > Success, CVS operation completed > ******************************************************************** > > Here is a summary of the results from running the update from > different > machines: > > Win2K with RH 7.2 / Samba 2.2.1a NO ERRORS > WinXP with RH 7.2 / Samba 2.2.1a NO ERRORS > Win2K with RH 8.0 / Samba 2.2.7 NO ERRORS > WinXP with RH 8.0 / Samba 2.2.7 ERRORS > > >From this I can only assume that there is something weird > going on with > XP + Samba 2.2.7, as all other factors seem to be the same. > > Has anyone got any clue whatsover as to what might be happening here? > > Thanks for your help, > > Kier Darby > Product Manager, vBulletin > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba