Restricting delete access per file in SAMBA

[rinacabj]

I'm using RFMS (www.rfms.com) on a Windows 2000 Pro workstation network talking to a Gentoo server. RFMS data is managed by Pervasive.SQL (www.pervasive.com). Just recently we've tried migrating to a linux server. We're currently on Windows 2000 Server, but think that Microsoft should have never tried to create a server operating system . My problem is that RFMS has no support for Linux (yet). Pervasive has a native Linux server, so I thought I'd go against odds and make RFMS talk to the Linux server. It turns out that it doesn't like the way Linux handles file permissions.

Everytime a RFMS worstation tries to create a session, it checks (deletes) to see if there is a current USERCNT.DAT file. USERCNT.DAT is the file that holds all of the currently logged in worstation ID information. Here is the filemon (search filemon at www.sysinternals.com) log file:

http://www.wccarpenter.com/filemon.log

It is used to a non-Linux file system, in which the file cannot be deleted if it is currently open. I was wondering if there is something I can change in the samba config that will not allow this file to be deleted.

Everything else works fine (record updates, etc.). But I am only able to log in to one workstation because of this file deletion problem. Any help with this will be greatly appreciated. Thank you!