[Samba] samba + windows xp + roaming profiles

Xavier Callejas xcallejas at ibcinc.com.sv
Tue Aug 3 20:30:22 GMT 2004


ok, with the first option: I have fc2, stock kernel, don't you know if it 
support extended attribute??? or I have to recompile the kernel?? and what 
parameters are requieres to mount a ext3 system with extended attribute??

El Mar 03 Ago 2004 14:35, Alex Grönholm escribió:
> Xavier Callejas wrote:
> > nop, it din't work out.
> > anyway thankyou very much, do you have an other idea?? :)
> >
> > El Mar 03 Ago 2004 13:38, Alex Grönholm escribió:
> >>Xavier Callejas wrote:
> >>>Hi, I'm having a problem with the roaming profiles and windows xp.
> >>>
> >>>The problem is that when a new user creates automatically a roaming
> >>>profile and when he logs out the profile stay in the home dir. when he
> >>>'relogin' the 'desktop.ini' files stop working beacuse they are not
> >>>'hidden' anymore, and all the folders loss its propertis.
> >>>
> >>>Why is that?? what is the solution????
> >>
> >>You can only store so much information in the UNIX permissions. My
> >>solution was to activate extended attribute support and disable the old
> >>style attribute mapping:
> >>
> >>	ea support = yes
> >>	map archived = no
> >>	map hidden = no
> >>         map system = no
> >>	store dos attributes = yes
> >>
> >>This way the system stores the DOS attributes in the extended
> >>attributes. You need to have a filesystem that supports extended
> >>attributes (e.g. ext3 & xfs) for this to work.
>
> Depending on your distribution, you may have to recompile the kernel
> with extended attribute support turned on, and mount the filesystem with
> the extended attribute support option enabled. This is the only proper
> way to get this to work. It seemed to work out of the box with Fedora
> Core 2.
>
> Keep in mind that once the desktop.ini files have been created, any
> tweaking you do to samba will not give them the proper attributes.
> I recommend that you go to your profile dir (on Windows) and:
>
> 	attrib +h +s desktop.ini /s
>
> This will restore the proper attributes to desktop.ini in all
> subdirectories. If the desktop.ini still shows up, you may want start
> with a fresh profile if that is an option for you.
>
> If, despite all your efforts you cannot get it to work, you can try
> mapping the "hidden" attribute to UNIX execute permissions:
>
> 	map archived = no
> 	map hidden = yes
> 	map system = no
>
> Doing so will most likely cause most of your files to become invisible
> though :) But understand that you can only map _ONE_ attribute at a time
> with the old system!

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