Support for Multiple Data Streams?

Stefan (metze) Metzmacher metze at metzemix.de
Fri Mar 21 06:14:43 GMT 2003


At 13:14 20.03.2003 -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>There are some interesting issues here. Alternate Data Streams can be
>accessed via CIFS, but there is no special support built into the
>protocol.
>
>They are simply accessed syntactically. An ADS has a name like
><file-name>:<ADS-name>, and NTFS maps that to the named $DATA attribute
>called <ADS-name>. Other implementations are free to do it any way they
>want. Since UNIX allows ":" in names, the files will appear with funny
>names, but searches will be screwed up.

in samba we filter out path names witch include ':' and return 
STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND



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