[Samba] syncing file dates between windows nt4 and samba 3.0

[Daniel Johnson]

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On 10 Jan 2004 at 19:15, Holger Krull wrote:
> Kristian Rink schrieb:
> > workstations which at night run xcopy /d to copy files from the 
> 
> > files or directories I am copying there - if they already exist
on the 
> > samba machine, they're obviously updated, but their timestamp
doesn't 
> 
> > After playing around with dos filetime and fake directory create 
> > filetimes without any success: Can anyone enlighten me in this
topic?

<Sorry for posting here, I subscribed after the first message>

What systems are in use?  I ask because I had a similar
always-updating problem when mirroring a website onto a FAT32
partition.  FAT's timestamps are only kept to 2-second precision
(IIRC), but the website was on EXT2.  The FAT system appeared to
round the timestamps *down*, so every time wget compared them it
thought my copy was old.  I found that putting a 'touch *' at the end
of that script took care of the problem.

If that really is the cause of your problem, you could put an extra
command in those BAT files ("copy C:\something .\update.now") to
signal a cron job that it needs to touch everything.  It would be
nice to have a "--plus-one-minute" option in touch...

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