On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 08:59:09PM +1100, Graeme Perkes wrote: > Hi, > > This post is to prevent other people that are having trouble with Vista > clients from going down a blind alley investigating problems in their samba > configurations. > > After some research I have found (see link below) that there is a general > problem for pre-installed OEM editions of Vista Business (and possibly other > vista versions) in creating files and folders on network shares. > > The problem presents itself on the Vista clients when navigating into a > network share (Linux or XP-based share) and trying to create a new folder. > These are the steps > > 1. In Vista OEM client right click in open folder on share > 2. Select "Create -> New -> Folder" > 3. Vista will automatically create a new folder called "New Folder" > 4. On attempting to rename the folder to a more sensible name, an error > dialog pops up and says 'The "\\..." folder does not exist. The file may > have been moved or deleted. > > Given my network shares are samba based I initially investigated > incompatibilities in my older samba 3.0.20a WINS / fileserver. I have > installed samba 3.0.24 with latest patches on a test server and I am still > experiencing the problem. > > I found the following forum thread about the issue. > > http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=522208&SiteID=17&PageID=0 > > The current solution is to perform a clean install of Vista rather than > cloning an existing installation (which seems to be the way OEM systems are > built). I unfortunately don't have this option since the two new Acer Vista > clients we purchased did not come with Vista install CDs. > > I'd be interested to hear if anyone has been able to resolve this issue > without reinstalling Vista.
Have you tried using the Vista patchset we prepared a week or so ago ? You shouldn't see this problem with that code. Cheers, Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba