smbfs question...

["Alan Su" <alsu@cs.ucsd.edu>]

hi everyone-

i have a linux box and a win98 box on a network, with the windows box
exporting a directory via SMB.  i use smbmount to mount the share,
which works fine.  the problem arises when i try the following
operation:

  9:27 [28] alsu (alsu):tmp/salishan99/CVS -> ls -l Entries*
  -rwxr-xr-x   1 alsu     alsu            0 Apr 17 09:26 Entries*
  -rwxr-xr-x   1 alsu     alsu          308 Apr 17 09:26 Entries.Backup*
  -rwxr-xr-x   1 alsu     alsu          320 Apr 17 09:26 Entries.Log*
  9:27 [29] alsu (alsu):tmp/salishan99/CVS -> mv -f Entries.Backup Entries
  mv: cannot move `Entries.Backup' to `Entries': Permission denied

basically, mv doesn't want to unlink the Entries file to rename
Entries.Backup to Entries.  this is essentially the operation that CVS
wants to perform when updating a working directory.

has anyone encountered this problem and know of a solution?  i could
be way off here, but it seems like a problem in the implmentation of
smbfs.

anyway, thanks!

-alan