[Samba] Directory Timestamp Problem in Dfs Root

[Shirish Kalele]

John,

This was a Samba Dfs issue with findnext's. I've fixed it in CVS. 
The next release should have the fix.

Thanks for bringing it up,
Shirish

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Shirish Kalele wrote:

>Can't think of anything off the top.
>
>If you're familiar with CIFS, you might want to look at a network trace to
>see if the timestamps returned over the wire are correct. You might also
>get an idea of when things start going wrong and why. For example, is it
>Samba or the DFS client that is the culprit.
>
>Have you tried this with an NT DFS server?
>
>I'll try and reproduce this when/if I can..
>
>- SK
>
>-----Original Message-----
>List:     samba
>Subject:  [Samba] Directory Timestamp Problem in Dfs Root
>From:     "John P Janosik" <jpjanosi at us.ibm.com>
>Date:     2002-04-10 22:48:52
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>I think I may have found a problem with the time/date stamp Samba is
>returning for Dfs links.
>
>We are running Samba 2.2.3a built with the --with-msdfs config option on a
>RedHat 7.2 linux machine.  Right now the only share we have is a Dfs root
>that contains a few thousand Dfs links.  When we do a "dir" in a command
>prompt mapped to that drive only the first 160 links show the correct
>time/date stamp.  If I do a "dir" to a drive mapped to another Samba
>server
>that contains a few thousand real directories the time stamps all look
>correct.  Here is an excerpt of the directory listing:
>
>03/28/2002  11:36a      <DIR>          hillier
>03/28/2002  11:36a      <DIR>          jeffg
>03/28/2002  11:36a      <DIR>          kaba
>03/28/2002  11:36a      <DIR>          sloneker
>03/28/2002  11:36a      <DIR>          v1voss
>12/23/1935  02:39a      <DIR>          gardinor
>12/23/1935  02:39a      <DIR>          johnthom
>12/23/1935  02:39a      <DIR>          mcurrie
>12/23/1935  02:39a      <DIR>          markpf
>12/23/1935  02:39a      <DIR>          eschmitt
>
>I have a few log files at various debug levels but I cannot see anything
>obviously failing.
>
>Thanks for any suggestions,
>
>John Janosik
>jpjanosi at us.ibm.com
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