Permissions problem with MacOS SMB
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I'm on Mac M1 Ventura 13.5.1, I've set a 16TB USB storage in retronas + samba + samba MiSTer as pi user on my Raspberry Pi4, fixed all permissions, then I successfully log in from MAC to retronas SMB as pi, but I can only create new files / folders, not delete existing ones (for example, I want use only some games directories in "MiSTer" and not use the "saves" dir...
Logging in Rasp as pi user and deleting a dire in mister with "rm -r saves" works...
[EDIT] Ok, I've tried to delete a subfolder of "saves" like "Adam" and the problem is that Finder says that the element is "in use"...
you'll need to do this from the server side, retronas is not setup for custom dir management, running the installer again will recreate all the folders
OK, I understand that running the installer again will recreate all the folders, what I don't understand is why I can't delete some folders having the permissions to do that.
The documentation for the samba project is available here https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/
afaik this is a limitation using symlinks with samba, they are not standard directories even though they present as such on the share. This issue is not limited to mac, i have a similar issue on linux clients accessing over samba and if i find a solution i'll implement a fix but i don't know of one atm.
you can however rename the folder as a workaround so the mister doesn't find them or remove them serverside
Ok, now it's clear, thanks!