Re: smbfs question...

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

"R. Brock Lynn" wrote (Sat, 17 Apr 1999 12:16:27 -0500 ):
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|>Well here's a simple thing to check:
|>
|>Do you have write permission on the SMB share? In windows you can have two
|>passwords... one for read and one for write.
|>

Brock-

thanks for the idea.  actually, i'm quite sure i have the correct
permissions to do this, as i can manually delete the file with
/bin/rm.

Shaleh suggested to me that this is a basic limitation in windows
filesystems.  that is to say, if you go into the explorer or a command
shell on a win box and try something analogous, you get an error.

so, now i have a question for the list.  i guess i can accept this
behavior, but now i'm curious: what does /bin/mv do when the target
file already exists (and isn't a directory).  it must do something
other than unlink the target file and relink the source file to that
name, right?  otherwise, it seems like it should work.

thanks, everyone.

-alan