cli_getattrE problem

[Richard Sharpe]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 derrell at samba.org wrote:

> > I am using the samba-3.0.9 version and basically we use the libsmb client
> > for our development work where we access files on CIFS shares. I wanted to
> > be able to recognise whether a file has the ENCRYPTED, OFFLINE, REPARSE
> > POINT, COMPRESSED and other such attributes set. I believe the
> > cli_getattrE() function in the libsmb is meant to return this information as
> > part of the 16 bit attribute field that it returns. This field gives correct
> > info about the rest of the file attributes like TEMPORARY, SYSTEM, HIDDEN,
> > etc.  but somehow does not have the rest of the bits set even when I call
> > the function on a file which has been encrypted or compressed and so
> > on. Could you tell me what I need to do to get this working? Is there some
> > other function I need to use? I tried cli_getatr too with similar
> > results.
>
> This represents an interesting problem.  libsmbclient exports the smbc_
> functions, which are intended to emulate POSIX functions.  Since there is
> currently no POSIX function that would typically return ENCRYPTED, OFFLINE,
> etc., there has been no need to have the internal cli_ functions return them.

This might have to do with the attributes and flags we set when we start
up the connection.

Regards
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