Re: Unusual behaviour of veto files parameter on Samba 3.x using GNU/Linux Clients with 2.6.27 kernel
Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
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On Sat, 16 May 2009 02:30:55 -0700 (PDT) Joseph Dacuma <[email protected]> wrote: > While doing tests, it was observed that whenever files mounted from a GNU/Linux client, the directive of veto files were not consistently enforced on a on some shares. To compound the problem, it could not be determined when the veto parameter will work or fail. > > On the positive side, with windows clients, the server blocks everything thrown at it without failure. > This sounds pretty clearly like a server-side problem. Given that the idea behind "veto files" is to hide certain files from the client, the server can't rely on a client being "cooperative". If it's presenting these files to the client at all, then the server is broken. My first suspicion would be that this is a samba bug that is only happening when unix extensions are enabled. You might want to repeat your tests on the linux clients, but this time mount with '-o nounix'. If the server starts behaving correctly with that, then I suggest filing a bug with this info at samba.org. Cheers, -- Jeff Layton <[email protected]>