better network filesystems

[Volker Lendecke]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 09:45:00PM -0600, Steve French wrote:
> This is not really much
> different than MS client - we should aim to allow Windows clients to 
> Samba server the best  Windows
> semantics possible for us to deliver.  If it were possible we would aim 
> to pass --  ALL -- of the IFSTEST functional tests
> remotely to Samba (at least pass all that NTFS can pass) unfortunately 
> the Windowsclient IFS gets in the
> way in a few cases.

There was a little discussion on irc about this point. Tridge found that even
windows 2003 as a server does not pass all the IFSTEST tests. What should be
the reference here? ntfs or observed w2k3 network behaviour?

Volker