Time to do some work on smbclient and smbtar

[Matt Chapman]

Richard Sharpe wrote:

> One of the bug reports I have seen suggests that both NT4sp3 and Win95
> object to changing the time on a file (my own experience is that Win95
> sends back an error response to the SMB to set the attributes, but does
> indeed change the time :-).

My experience is that NT will refuse to change a file time to something
unreasonable (probably a change of more than +/- 50 years or something like
that).

The clientgen stuff currently doesn't work properly wrt NT filetimes (cli_getatr
returns a ridiculous time and then cli_setatr seems to set it to something
different again), so if you are testing with that then this could explain NT's
reluctance to change these times.

Dates & times are generally a mess across Windows platforms and any fix will
probably involve writing client-specific code.

Good luck.

    Matt


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