Trash not working (file will be deleted immediately)

FWIW, I think petrock largely answered your question back in January: Leopard doesn't fully support remote home folders on NFS volumes unless they are set up in a particular way.

Perhaps if you describe how you set this up, he can tell you what you might need to do to get it to work as you want.

I'm having the same problem, and we are also using NFS-mounted home directories so it seems likely related to this setup (we use NFS instead of AFP because we've run into problems with some standard Unix programs and locking over AFP).

To describe our setup:
We have all users listed in /etc/auto_home, like:

jimmy xserve1:/Users/&
lisa havasu:/export/home/&

and the accounts are set in OD to use /home/username as the home directory, and everything but Trash works fine.

I see the system has created a /Users/.Trashes/ directory on the fileserver but it's empty. In a few cases, I have also found a .Trashes/ directory on the client with subdirectories named for the UID of the user. This all used to work in Tiger. But since we upgraded our server and clients all to Leopard, the Trash has been broken.

Same behavior here. We've used to host our homedirs on a Netapp server with 10.4 clients and it was working like a charm.

Now with 10.5 the trash is unusable and we need to confirm manually all files deletion. The .Trash folder seems to be completely disconnected from the Trash icon of the dock.

I'm not sure about this but I think it may cause other bugs, like problems when opening attachments with Thunderbird, since Thunderbird may create temporary files when opening an attachment and delete them immediately (with problems ?) after.

Since I had the same problem with a HD partition with only datadocuments (the system is on a seperate partition) I set to try various things and this may be a solution:

First I selected the HD partition and checked "ignore ownership for this volume". Then I deleted a file which (at last) went the normal way. When I then opened the Trash all documents I had deleted for some weeks appeared never to have been removed at all. Emptying Trash only removed the file I just deleted.

Now here's something very funny. When, still in the Trashfolder, I selected a file or folder and chose Get Info the file or folder disappeared! Thus the Trashfolder was actually emptied.

After this I unchecked the "ignore ownership for this volume" and now I had to give my password everytime I wished to delete a file. Again I chose Get Info for the HD concerned and chose "apply to enclosed items". From now on everything was back to normal.

So I think all this had to do with ownership.

I've just installed the 10.5.3 update from the software update tool and the problem persists. I've noticed no difference.