Added OS/2 EA's to smbd

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Mar 31 17:34:15 GMT 2004


On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 12:48:28PM +1000, Tim Potter wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 06:29:18PM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 
> > If you create a file with EA's on a NTFS filesystem and then copy it
> > onto the smbd filesystem the EA's don't get copied by the "copy"
> > command, or by an explorer copy, so I'm guessing they're completely
> > ignored by Win32.
> 
> Doesn't Word use EAs to set author information and other stuff that
> appears when you do right click properties on a file?  Or am I getting
> confused with something else?

No, MS-Office uses separate file streams to store this info.

Jeremy.


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