[Samba] Can't use offline files in Windows 2000 properly

Daniel O'Connor darius at dons.net.au
Wed Nov 26 04:41:53 GMT 2003


Hi,
I have Samba 2.2.3a running on a FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE system and a Windows 2000 
Pro laptop.

I am trying to use the offline files feature in windows to keep offline copies 
of some documents but it doesn't appear to play nicely with Samba :(

I setup some documents to sync and it appears to copy them over, and says it 
was successful, but after I go offline they are 0 bytes long and in the magic 
offline folder they are shown as "local copy incomplete".

I read http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/msg75181.html but unfortunately I 
can't use an ACL file system (I don't really want to upgrade to FreeBSD 5.x 
for our main file server at this point :) Updating Samba 3 is probably an 
option if it will work.

I can provide debugging logs, and test patches etc if anyone is interested in 
helping.

FWIW the sync works fine against Win98SE machines so hopefully it will not be 
necessary to implement ACL stuff (pie in the sky dream? :)

Thanks in advance (and for a most useful piece of software)

-- 
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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