[Samba] windows file compatibility aka A Cry For Help

[Chris McKeever]

I think I need to use the map hidden and map archive...so I have to play
with attributes...

!!!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris McKeever 
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 5:01 PM
> To: Chris McKeever; 'Scott Shackelford'; samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: RE: [Samba] windows file compatibility aka A Cry For Help
> 
> 
> I think I have narrowed it down to needing the archive and 
> hidden bit set..any ideas how to mimic this through a samba share...
> 
> thanks!!!
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris McKeever [mailto:tech-mail at prupref.com]
> > Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 4:17 PM
> > To: 'Scott Shackelford'; samba at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: RE: [Samba] windows file compatibility aka A Cry For Help
> > 
> > 
> > gave it a shot...no go .. will keep toying with it!
> > 
> > Thanks for the suggestion
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Scott Shackelford [mailto:scott at customtransport.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 4:06 PM
> > > To: samba at lists.samba.org
> > > Subject: RE: [Samba] windows file compatibility aka A Cry For Help
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I've seen some older programs not handle Network shares over 
> > > 2GB. I would
> > > try to limit the max disk size reported to 2GB.
> > > 
> > > In your smb.conf in the [global] section add
> > > 
> > > 	max disk size = 2000
> > > 
> > > and see if that fixes it. I usually see this on some 
> > > installers as they
> > > think that if it's over 2GB or space that it thinks it's 0 
> > > space free. (Runs
> > > out of bits.) Hope this helps.
> > > 
> > > 	-Scott Shackelford
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: samba-bounces+scott=customtransport.com at lists.samba.org
> > > > 
> [mailto:samba-bounces+scott=customtransport.com at lists.samba.org]On
> > > > Behalf Of Chris McKeever
> > > > Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 4:38 PM
> > > > Cc: 'samba at lists.samba.org'
> > > > Subject: [Samba] windows file compatibility aka A Cry For Help
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Everything is going amazing in the windows->samba 
> > > conversion until I ran
> > > > into a roadblock..I really dont know what may be going on so I
> > > > will outline
> > > > it as best as I can.
> > > >
> > > > We have a program called realty toolkit which saves its 
> > > configuration and
> > > > security settings onto the network.  Well, after putting the
> > > > files onto the
> > > > linux box, it no loger wants to work, the security check fails.
> > > >
> > > > calling the vendor they asked 'is there any compression' 
> > > because they have
> > > > seen this behavior with compressed drives, and thier explanation
> > > > is 'toolkit
> > > > looks for a specific file geometry and compression throws 
> > > that off'  -- so
> > > > my interpretation is that the file has to be written 
> > > correctly when read
> > > >
> > > > I can only guess that samba stores it a bit different, and 
> > > therefore the
> > > > geometry is off...
> > > >
> > > > Does this make any sense? or is this way off and it is a 
> > > different problem
> > > > that can be fixed???
> > > >
> > > > Other than that the implementation is running great!
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