[OpenAFS] TESTDIR...?

Christopher Arnold chris@pictage.com
Thu, 05 Dec 2002 15:55:12 -0800


Derrick J Brashear wrote:

>On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Christopher Arnold wrote:
>
>>found some general information
>>saying that this was something Windows does when creating directories on
>>shared network drives.
>>The solution is to change the permissions on the shared drive to allow
>>"delete" permission..... I thought
>>that since AFS has it's own  independent access control lists this sort
>>of thing wouldn't apply.  Is there
>>some thing I'm missing about windows clients and their interaction with
>>AFS ACLs?  
>>
>
>What permissions do the clients have? There can be interaction if you
>allow, say, insert but not write. I'd guess there's a bug in the AFS
>client which makes the file not go away when unlinked, but there's not
>really enough information to go on to figure anything out yet, if so.
>
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The windows clients are using an operations login which have AFS write
permission just for the
volume in question.  When they create directories there the TESTDIR.TMP
file gets created inside
of the newly created folder.  


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Christopher Arnold
System Administrator
Pictage, Inc.