[Bug 1795772] Re: rmdir on non-empty samba directory fails silently

[Andreas Hasenack]

>From my testing, looks like bionic and cosmic are affected. Xenial
returns a proper error:

smb: \> rmdir somedir
NT_STATUS_DIRECTORY_NOT_EMPTY removing remote directory file \somedir


** Also affects: samba (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Bug watch added: Samba Bugzilla #13204
   https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13204

** Also affects: samba via
   https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13204
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

** Tags added: server-next

** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided => High

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Title:
  rmdir on non-empty samba directory fails silently

Status in samba:
  Unknown
Status in samba package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in samba source package in Bionic:
  New

Bug 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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