[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#633651: Is this bug still here?

[Peter Tuhársky]

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?
>