samba rename bug - solution?

[Craig White]

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?
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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.html
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> 
> 2) Where might I find a compatible rpm of a newer version of samba?
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I wouldn't suggest that you jump the shark on this just yet.
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> 
> 3) Any idea why is RHEL/COS so far behind with samba releases?
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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