On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 2:14 AM, Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solo...@gmail.com>wrote:
> It's not a lock problem (see further details below) and the other > machine is also Linux. > > Just to be a bit clearer, if I open Kwrite on the other (Linux) machine, > write some text and "save as" to the shared partition, the file is > created. If I now make a change to the file and try to save, I get an > error message saying I don't have permission (sorry, I don't remember > the exact message and am not at the other machine right now). > My bad for assuming you're using Samba to share with Windows :) I googled for how Kwrite saves a file, and found someone who said (although that he's not sure) that Kwrite first writes the file with a new name, and when that's success, it renames the file to the old name. (myself adding: since a rename is an atomic operation, that means that you can never end up with a truncated file, even in a filesystem full situation...) If that is true (sorry, going to sleep, won't be doing straces now), then you may be effectively trying to overwrite a file that is currently "open" (as per samba), which is similar to a lock. What happens if you save a file, close kwrite, verify that the connection is dead in smbstatus, and then try to echo bla bla > filename? Does that fail to with a permission problem? And again, look at the verbose logs :) -- Shimi P.S. If you're sharing Linux to Linux only, NFS will probably give you better performance...
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