Hi,

I'm working for a company that has many users using samba and Red Hat
Linux 6.1. We've found a problem that we can reproduce using the latest
samba release (2.0.6). It is fairly hard to describe accurately but I will
do my best.

All of the users involved are in the group 'ihgtech'. The problem
involves recursive deletion of directories owned by another user
and the group 'ihgtech'.

Consider a directory 'source' with two sub-directories, 'a' and 'b'.
We have found that, even though all of the files and directories
below and including 'source' have write permission set for members
of 'ihgtech', 'rm -rf source/' fails with permission denied errors
for the sub-directories.

If we do a verbose rm, `rm -rfv' we see that rm believes it has deleted
files that are still there after the command has finished. Because these
files are left behind rm receives a permission denied error when attempting
to remove the directory containing the files.

We find the bug behaves in the same way each time, although we do not
understand the behaviour. I will attempt to illustrate below:

caltest2/ -- inc/ -- (files)
          -- src/ -- last -- (files)
                  -- (files)
          -- tmp/ -- (files)
          -- (files)

Then, after `rm -rf caltest2':

caltest2/ -- inc/ -- (files removed, directory remains)
          -- src/ -- last/ -- (files removed)
          -- src/ -- (files)

Execute above command again:

caltest2/ -- src/ -- last/ -- (files removed)
          -- src/ -- (less files than before)

And again:

-- ALL FILES GONE --

Thanks for any help you can provide. Some system details follow:

$ uname -a
Linux bertie.ihgtech.com.au 2.2.5-15 #1 Mon Apr 19 23:00:46 EDT 1999 i686
unknown

$ cat /etc/samba.conf
# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from sysadmin.ihgtech (192.168.0.2)
# Date: 1999/11/26 09:29:23

# Global parameters
	workgroup = IHGTECH
	netbios name = BERTIE
	server string = Samba Server
	password level = 4
	log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
	max log size = 50
	socket options = TCP_NODELAY
	printcap name = /etc/printcap
	logon script = logon.bat
	logon path = \\%N\%U\.profile
	domain logons = Yes
	preferred master = Yes
	domain master = Yes
	dns proxy = No
	wins support = Yes
	guest account =
	hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127. 192.168.3.

[homes]
	comment = %u's Home Directory
	read only = No
	create mask = 0640
	directory mask = 0750
	browseable = No

[printers]
	comment = All Printers
	path = /var/spool/samba
	print ok = Yes
	browseable = No

[netlogon]
	comment = Windows Net Logon Directory
	path = /home/files/netlogon
	browseable = No

[profile]
	comment = Windows user profiles
	path = /home/files/profile
	read only = No
	create mask = 0600
	directory mask = 0700
	browseable = No

[trash]
	comment = Trash Area
	path = /home/files/trash
	force group = users
	read only = No
	create mask = 0660
	directory mask = 0770

[arrow]
	comment = The Arrow Area
	path = /home/files/arrow
	admin users = nrar
	force group = arrow
	read only = No
	create mask = 0660
	directory mask = 0770

[engineering]
	comment = IHG Technologies Engineering Filespace
	path = /home/files/engineering
	valid users = +ihgtech, rjr
	admin users = nrar, bmt
	read list = rjr
	force group = ihgtech
	read only = No
	create mask = 0660
	directory mask = 0770

[homedir]
	path = /home
	valid users = nrar, bmt
	admin users = nrar, bmt
	read only = No
	browseable = No

[anz]
	comment = ANZ Online Files
	path = /home/files/anz
	valid users = +anz
	admin users = nrar
	force group = anz
	read only = No
	create mask = 0660
	directory mask = 0770
	browseable = No

[admin]
	comment = Administrative File Area
	path = /home/files/admin/
	valid users = +users
	admin users = nrar
	force group = users
	create mask = 0660
	directory mask = 0770

[hwintraweb]
	comment = Hardware Intraweb
	path = /home/httpd/html/hwintraweb
	write list = am, az, nrar
	force group = hwintraweb
	read only = No
	create mask = 0664
	directory mask = 0775
	browseable = No