Hello, Chris Thank You for Your interest.
I stopped updating the domain server, beacuse in production I couldn't afford any further breakage.
I can confirm, that by 95% probability, the bug is caused by the samba or related libraries on the domain server. We have two other samba file servers, and I attempted to reinstal one of them from the older DVD's, however this dosen't help and clients still couldn't delete files on that server. Then I also tested full update on that server, and nothing gets better of worse. Since then I regularly update both fileservers with no difference (avoiding update on domain server). Even SLES client cannot delete files on them, and it has other samba version indeed (3.4.3-1.17.2-2359-SUSE-CODE11).
It is interesting, that on domain server itself, the samba file services work well - one can delete files even with samba/linux client. However, in one instance, even from WindowsXP client, OpenOffice.org cannot rewrite file it created. It is strange, because this affects just one share, that is not mounted as local disk (accessed as network path instead), and OpenOffice is accessed from Visual Foxpro app. So it could be the difference in function used to access file, or difference in using the network share itself...
I plan reinstalling/migrating the domain server, so that I could first test the new updates, and then switch to other machine with old versions installed, however, this is peculiar thing to do and I hesitate to do that, and I even don't have time right now to engage in such a risky business. The very reinstallation is just one part of problem - preparing data and services for worst case scenarios being the bigger one, and accomodating appropriate off-service time the other.
Do You have any idea? Peter Dňa 10.05.2012 22:19, Christian PERRIER wrote / napísal(a):
Hello Peter, This very strange bug where a security update introduced a big regression where linux clients can no longer delete files was finally not really investigated by us...mostly because it was really puzzling. Since you had this problem, there have been other updates to Debian squeeze packages of samba? Did by any chance one of these solve (mysteriously) that problem? Or did the problem go away by itself? Or did you stop updating that server? Or did something else happen?
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