Hidden,System Attributes on Directories

[Nick Eggleston]

Perhaps you could see your way clear to shaking loose a pre-release
version for us to play with.  Please?

Nick

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, ZINKEVICIUS,MATT (HP-Loveland,ex1) wrote:

> My NT ACL patch (little more testing needed to release) adds an extended
> attribute interface to samba's VFS. I use this to store NT ACLs and DOS
> attributes. I plan to also store create-time and NTFS streams using this
> interface.
>
> Matt Zinkevicius
> Software Engineer
> Network Storage Array Solutions
> Hewlett-Packard
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Brodbeck [mailto:DavidB at mail.interclean.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 1:41 PM
> > To: 'Nick Eggleston'
> > Cc: samba-technical at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: RE: Hidden,System Attributes on Directories
> >
> >
> > Under Linux it'd make more sense to store the DOS attributes
> > as extended
> > user attributes, but obviously that wouldn't be portable.
> > There are other
> > problems with doing it the way it's currently done...for example, if a
> > program manages to set the execute bit on a file, the file
> > becomes hidden.
> > Photoshop does this for some bizarre reason.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nick Eggleston [mailto:nick at dccinc.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 1:03 PM
> > To: samba at lists.samba.org
> > Cc: samba-technical at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: Hidden,System Attributes on Directories
> >
> >
> > Setting Hidden, System, or Archive bits on DIRECTORIES does not work
> > (Samba Ver 2.2.2) .  We have it working fine for files, where is maps
> > those permissions to the X flags under Unix.  However,
> > directories on Unix
> > require those bits for normal operation, so they would have
> > to be mapped
> > to some other bits (probably suid, sgid and sticky bits) for
> > directories.
> > Unfortunately, I can find no configuration parameters that
> > discuss this
> > issue.
> >
> > [the only other option I can see would me to have a secret
> > look-aside file
> > that stored these setting out-of-band]
> >
> > Would someone(s) please comment on this issue?  Has it been addressed
> > previously?  Am I just missing something obvious?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> >
>