[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#519829: mount.cifs: No such file or directory error while writting to previously opened file

[Benoit Panizzon]

Package: smbfs
Version: 3.0.24-6etch10
Severity: normal


This is a problem that completely puzzles me.

I'm running a samba server on 'etch' and have ACL's enabled on the filesystem shared by samba.

I have clients with 'etch', 'sid', WinXP and Mac OS X.

/bin/mount.cifs has setuid set so users can mount shares.

They normaly do it by specifying -o user=username,noperm as the uid/gid can be different.

Now Windows User can perfectly work and change acls.
Mac OS X Users can just work on files, but that's all they need ;-)

Linux Users which mount files via mount.cifs experience a very strange problem I have been trying to find
for the last couple of days.

If they use a text editor like vi or nano (kwrite is also affected) which does not seam to open and lock the file exclusively,
they can open the file, but as soon as something is changed and the user tries to save the file
they get such an error:

Error writing /path/to/file/on/smb/server: No such file or directory

Saving under a different name and then renaming the file overwriting the original one works perfectly.

Also deleting, creating, renaming, piping data to the file works as expected.

Any idea what could cause that problem? (A quick search by google leads to the suspicion I'm not the one
observing that problem, but I couldn't find and solution).

-Benoit-

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.1
Locale: LANG=de_CH, LC_CTYPE=de_CH (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages smbfs depends on:
ii  lib 2.3.6.ds1-13etch8                    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lib 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1 common error description library
ii  lib 1.4.4-7etch6                         MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  lib 2.1.30-13.3                          OpenLDAP libraries
ii  net 4.29                                 Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  sam 3.0.24-6etch10                       Samba common files used by both th

smbfs recommends no packages.

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