What version are you running? You may be hitting the issue described in bug 21019. If so, you need to get a version that supports the cifs.perm_check_ro_del_ok option (probably 5.3.4R3P2 or 5.3.5P2).

The issue here is that some customers consider it a bug to allow a read-only file to be deleted, since that violates NT delete semantics, while others (like yourself) consider it to be a bug not to obey UNIX delete semantics (i.e. you just need w-x in the parent). The option was introduced to allow this behavior to be customized.

Mark

-----Original Message----- From: Jeff Stampes [mailto:Jeff.Stampes@xilinx.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 1:27 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Permissions

Situation:

touch a file from a UNIX box chmod 444 file from UNIX box rm -f file from NT box over CIFS share

Result: Permission Denied..Booooooo

touch a file from a NT box chmod 444 file from UNIX box rm -f file from NT box over CIFS share

Result: file is quietly removed...Yeeeeeah!

The former behavior is undesirable, as we have multiple platforms in our compile releasing the same platform independent files at different times. Any suggestions?

-Jeff