This report had been lodged before for Samba v2.2.8, but I'd lost the report number. In a DOS session of a Win98 client, I invoke "net use f: \\server\share" to mount a network drive f:. When I issue "del f:\file.txt" an error occurs : General failure reading drive F Abort, Retry, Fail? Windows Explorer works well. For Samba v2.2.8, I learnt that a solution was to set "wide links = yes" in smb.conf . However, this no longer works for v3.0.0.
works fine using 98se dos windows an the current 3.0 cvs tree. If you are having a problem with synbolic links, you need to include more details so that we can reproduce or possible attach a level 10 debug log of the failure along with your smb.conf
Created attachment 241 [details] netlogon.bat
Created attachment 242 [details] smb.conf
Created attachment 243 [details] level 10 log from samba-3.0.0
Created attachment 244 [details] level 10 log from samba-2.2.8a
My copy of samba-3.0.0 was installed in the usual way, i.e. unpack the distribution, run "configure --prefix=/home/test/SMB-3.0.0", "make", and "make install". Then created the "smbpasswd", "smb.conf", and "netlogon.bat" files. Then fired up "smbd -D" and "nmbd -D". I could logon to Samba from a Win98SE client, and the netlogon script mapped a drive letter. Then I invoked a MS-DOS prompt and issued the command "F:\>del file.txt", an error occurred - General failure reading drive F Abort, Retry, Fail? I replied "A" and returned to the prompt. This happened on other clients as well. However, file deletion and other manipulations can still be done from within Windows Explorer, but then many of my batch scripts fail due to the "del" failure. Attached please find the relevant files.
should be fixed in 3.0.1rc1 according to jra
This is to report that samba-3.0.1rc1 does fix this bug.
Thanks. Marking it as verified.