I will only be able to play with the log tonight, but in the meantime, I can answer that my Kwrite example was just that, an example. The same problem with Open Office files. Also, no change if I close and re-open the files (in both programs). The reason I'm using Samba is that this is a mixed network with Linux and Windows machines.
On Sun, 4 Nov 2012 02:24:07 +0200 shimi <linux...@shimi.net> wrote: > 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... -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by Claws Mail 3.7.9 - KDE 4.6.5 - LINUX Mandriva 2011.0 _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
