[Samba] Samba & Alternate Data Streams

[John Drescher]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Marten Gajda
<marten.gajda at fernuni-hagen.de> wrote:
> I still can't get it to work :-( .
> As I guessed earlier it seems Samba is not advertising the
> streams-feature. Using the Sysinternals Process Monitor I can see that
> on my samba share "Named Streams" is not listed among the
> FileSystemAttributes, whereas it is on a Windows XP share. I guess this
> is the feature I need. Its absence might be the reason why windows
> doesn't try to access some streams (it doesn't explain why it actually
> tries to read some streams though).
> Is there any way to enable this (preferably without hacking the samba
> sources)
> Any hints are welcome.
>

I thought that the streams do not work without the streams_xattr
module. Did you set that up on your samba server?

John