[linux-cifs-client] Re: chmod 01777 has different SETFILEBITS EA from chmod 01444

[Martin Koeppe]

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Steven French wrote:

> I will try to reproduce your results on my test system.   I did all of the
> chmods locally in Windows XP (all in the same shared directory) and then
> did "getfattr /mnt/*" from Linux on that directory remotely.   There may be
> something strange going on with masks.
>
> I can also try to setfattr (from Linux to Windows XP) various otherwise
> identical files with different values for SETFILEBITS and see what happens.

How did you mount the XP shared dir? I cannot use getfattr on the 
mounted dir, "operation not supported".

What kernel/cifs/smbfs version and/or option is needed to view the 
xattrs on Linux?


Martin