[Samba] Samba 3.4.4 & Windows 7 offline folders

[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:46:24PM +0100, Martin Hochreiter wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Is it possible that Samba 3.4 has some problems with offline folder
> synchronisation on windows 7 clients?
> 
> I can't get it really working. I added this entries according to
> another user experiencing
> similar problems to the share:
> 
> [homes]
>    [...]
>    create mask = 0611
>    oplocks = yes
>    level2 oplocks = yes
>    map archive = yes
>    map system = yes
>    map hidden = yes
> 
> So windows 7 starts the sync at least (before it cancels it
> immediately after starting it) but a problem remains:
> If I change one file offline OR online windows 7 complains a
> conflict because the 2 files have changed on serverside and
> offline!?
> 
> I read that you can check if the samba version is too old for
> offline folders by searching for that lines in the samba log:
> 
> ... I have that lines although I have Samba 3.4.4
> 
> call_nt_transact_ioctl(0x901af): Currently not implemented.
> 
> can somebody give me a hint please how I get windows 7 & Samba &
> offline folders working?

We did fix a bug in this recently (with Microsoft's help). But
it should definately be fixed in 3.4.4.

I'll take a look at this once I'm back with my full test environment
(next week). In the meantime can you log a bug at bugzilla.samba.org
so this problem doesn't get lost.

Thanks,

	Jeremy.