On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, C. J. wrote: > > Hi, I'm having a problem using the "rd /s" cmd.exe command from my win2k & > XP boxes to delete directories on SunOS 5.7 machine running Samba 2.2.3a. > All the files were created from win2k. The problem is > when I try "rd /s" on certain directories, I get incorrect error messages > that say: > "The system cannot find the file specified.", > and most surprisingly > "Cannot create a file when that file already exists."! > > Running "rd /s" a second time on the same directory finishes the deletion > job, but this seems like a bug in either cmd.exe, win2k or samba. The > problem seems to have to do with dirs that contain > 2 files with long filenames that map to short filenames that differ only in > the last char of the extension. See my example sequence of cmds to cmd.exe > below, I'm pretty sure the file sizes and contents are irrelevant. This > isn't a new bug, I've been seeing it since samba 2.0.6. Can anyone help me > here?
I cannot reproduce this bug using a win2ksp2 client nor an xp home box. Can you test the latest SAMBA_2_2 cvs code (http://us2.samba.org/samba/cvs.html) cheers, jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team http://www.samba.org -- http://www.plainjoe.org "Sam's Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed. ISBN 0-672-32269-2 --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca-- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba