samba rename bug - solution?

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 20:20 -0700, Nathan England wrote:
> On Friday 06 March 2009 20:03:14 Craig White wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 19:11 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote:
> > > I'm using rsync and cygwin to migrate some files from WinXP to samba
> > > (3.0.28-1.el5_2.1) on Centos (5.2). Files that have the read-only
> > > attribute are failing the final rename with "permission denied".
> > >
> > > Permissions are all ok, and I've verified with manual testing that when
> > > attempting to rename a read-only file on a samba share from the Windoze
> > > CLI, it fails with "permission denied", so the problem appears to be
> > > with samba.
> > >
> > > I've googled quite a bit, and found an indication that this indeed was a
> > > problem with samba and "might be fixed in 3.0.14a. Should be fixed for
> > > sure in 3.0.20rc1". So I'm running 3.0.28 (the latest COS5 version) and
> > > it appears to not be fixed in that version.
> > >
> > > 3 questions:
> > >
> > > 1) Does anyone know which version this might have been fixed in, or if
> > > it's fixed yet at all?
> >
> > ----
> > I would suspect that the version isn't as important here as making sure
> > that the filesystem is mounted with extended attributes.
> >
> > You might find the official samba documentation useful here
> > http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/AccessControls.h
> >tml ----
> >
> > > 2) Where might I find a compatible rpm of a newer version of samba?
> >
> > ----
> > I wouldn't suggest that you jump the shark on this just yet.
> > ----
> >
> > > 3) Any idea why is RHEL/COS so far behind with samba releases?
> >
> > ----
> > Sure - CentOS is repackage of RHEL and Red Hat is reticent to distribute
> > updates that require changing configuration files where the act of
> > updating causes things to break. That said, RHEL 5 finally went from
> > Samba 3.0.10.x to 3.0.28.x because they needed more conformity with
> > versions of Vista and Win2k8 Server.
> >
> > That said, I think it's your configuration that needs changing, not the
> > version of Samba but if you feel you need to install a later version of
> > samba...
> >
> > http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/redhat/5/i386/RPMS.unstable/
> >
> > has version 3.0.32
> > and
> > sernet.de should have various 3.2.x and 3.3.x versions suitable for
> > installation on RHEL 5/CentOS 5
> > http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/tested/centos/5/
> >
> > Craig
> >
> 
> I was under the impression that samba does not allow for name changes, but 
> rather copies the current file to a new file of whatever name you give it. So 
> if you rename file.exe to fileA.exe it copies file.exe to fileA.exe then 
> deletes file.exe
> 
> If this is the case it may not be able to delete the RO files...
----
I'm not even sure that using rsync on cygwin respects NT permissions at
all and would probably suggest that he use robocopy.exe for copying
files and retaining permissions but I was concentrating on answering the
questions he was asking.

Craig