On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 01:58:45PM +0200, Björn Mayer wrote: > Hello mailinglist, > > I have a strange problem, which occurs sometimes on some WinXP clients. > It is not 100% reproducable for me, but it returns regular. > > The problem is, that somehow a user can't delete a directory. All files > in the directory will be removed successfully, but the directory itself > not. > Deleting with the Explorer or over the cmd-console returns in the same > result. > First the command seemed to be successful, but after one refresh all > "deleted" folders are back again, because they aren't physically removed > from the linux-box. > > I don't know, if it is an Samba or Windows Problem, because if i went to > another XP machine and do exactly the same (including connecting with > the same user and passwd) the folder will be removed successfully. > > Often one (sometimes more than one) restart on the "infected" PC will > fix it there, too. > > All Win-Machines are XP with Service Pack 2. > > As i already said, i don't know whom to blame for that. On the one hand > it seems to be a specific Windows-problem, because other machines does > not show the same behaviour at the same time under nearly the same > conditions. > On the other hand nobody ever mentioned that with our old Win Server > 2003 Fileserver, who is nowadays replaced by Samba.
What does this error mean ? "Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden". That's the strerror output string when the remove_directory call fails. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba