Support for SMB1 and SMB2 within the VFS

[Volker Lendecke]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:14:49AM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 09:48:32AM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I was recently looking at previous version support in SMB1 and SMB2
> > and wondered to what extent there is clean support in the Samba 3 VFS
> > for this.
> > 
> > What I mean by this is that in SMB1, previous versions are referred to
> > in paths with something like /path/to/some/dir/@GMT:some-time/...
> > while in SMB2 previous versions are handled with a TimeWarp extra info
> > on a Create Request.
> > 
> > Is this info cleanly passed into the VFS such that it is easy for VFS
> > routines to work with either SMB1 or SMB2 clients or do VFS routines
> > that deal with paths need to be burdened with the differences between
> > SMB1 and SMB2 encoding of this info?
> 
> Right now the SMB2 timewarp reuest is mapped into a
> @GMT:TIME\\original pathname and then passed into
> the VFS.
> 
> Longer term it'd be better to change the VFS to
> pass in a timewarp NTTIME and move the parsing
> of the @GMT:time out into the SMB1 code.
> 
> Just like we went from mapping old DOS open
> modes into WindowsNT open modes and moved the
> mapping layer into the DOS open code.

Ack.

Volker

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