[Samba] How to disable changing of modification times on file access?

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Thu May 13 15:25:44 GMT 2004


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Hannu Koivisto wrote:
| Greetings,
|
| I just upgraded from 2.2.3 (or whatever Debian
| stable has) to 3.0.4 (using the Debian packages
| available via the Samba mirrors).  I'm running it
| on Debian GNU/Linux stable x86, kernel 2.4.25.  I
| noticed that whenever I open a file using a Windows
| (I'm using Windows 2000) application, Samba changes
| its modification time to the current time.  The old
| modification time is restored when the windows application
| quits / closes the file.
|
| This causes all kinds of trouble, especially with Emacs'
| auto-revert-mode.  Is there a way to disable this behaviour?

Samba is only doing what the client applciation asks for.




cheers, jerry
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hewlett-Packard            ------------------------- http://www.hp.com
SAMBA Team                 ---------------------- http://www.samba.org
GnuPG Key                  ---- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc
"...a hundred billion castaways looking for a home." ----------- Sting
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFAo5N4IR7qMdg1EfYRAttUAJ0R52J7ZQj+hZvGRbe5DA/rbwX23QCfY2lP
+mukytCtu1i8IxovHAz7bMs=
=pYr1
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


More information about the samba mailing list