I am on traveling foot... so no chance to test with latest ubuntu
packages...

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018, 23:25 Rolando Gorgs <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Any good news? :-)
>
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> duplicate bug report (1773634).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1795772
>
> Title:
>   rmdir on non-empty samba directory fails silently
>
> Status in samba:
>   Unknown
> Status in samba package in Ubuntu:
>   Fix Released
> Status in samba source package in Bionic:
>   In Progress
>
> Bug description:
>   [Impact]
>
>   The samba client doesn't check the result of rmdir, returning success
>   when the directory is not empty. This results in clients reporting
>   successful directory removal when in fact the directory was not
>   removed.
>
>   This bug affects anything that uses the samba client, including file
>   managers, mount, and gvfs.
>
>   [Test Case]
>
>   # lxc launch ubuntu-daily:cosmic sambatest
>   # lxc exec sambatest bash
>
>   Inside container:
>
>   # apt update
>   # apt dist-upgrade -y
>   # apt install -y samba samba-client
>   # mkdir -p /tmp/shared/testdir/testsubdir
>   # chown -R nobody:nogroup /tmp/shared
>   # printf "%s" "[global]
>       workgroup = WORKGROUP
>       server role = standalone server
>       security = user
>       map to guest = Bad User
>       guest ok = yes
>       guest only = yes
>       guest account = nobody
>   [shared]
>       path = /tmp/shared
>       writable = yes
>       browsable = yes
>       guest ok = yes
>   " | tee "/etc/samba/smb.conf" >/dev/null
>   # service smbd restart
>
>   # CLI_FORCE_INTERACTIVE=yes smbclient -U " "%" " //localhost/shared <<EOF
>   rmdir testdir
>   quit
>   EOF
>
>   * Should get NT_STATUS_DIRECTORY_NOT_EMPTY
>
>   [Upstream Report and Fix]
>
>   https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13204
>
>   https://attachments.samba.org/attachment.cgi?id=14408
>
>   [Regression Potential]
>
>   If the fix is implemented incorrectly, clients may receive false error
>   messages, and report failure even on success when removing
>   directories.
>
>   [Original Description]
>
>   When you delete a non-empty directory in Nautilus or Nemo, the Folder-
>   Icon disappears and stays away but when you refresh the current
>   directory or navigate back there it reappears. No error message at
>   all. This bug is very annoying in two ways:
>
>   1) When you only have smb access to the share you have to delete all
>   files and directories in sub, subsub and subsubsubdirecories by hand
>   to actually delete a directory.
>
>   2) You don't get warned that the delete operation failed. In our case
>   this produced a horrible mess in our shares before we recognized what
>   was going wrong.
>
>   You can find many people complaining in various forums. I found bug
>   reports in bugtrackers of Nemo, Nautilus and Gnome but the root seems
>   to be this (upstream fixed) bug in samba:
>
>   https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13204
>
>   Please cherry pick the fix into current version of samba.
>
>   Thanks a lot for your help!
>
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(¸.·´ (¸. Stephan


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