[Samba] Re: Change time causes profile corruption

[Danny Paul]

Jerry,
 
In this particular instance, the user received the files via email from an
external source, so it's really hard to say exactly why the date is 0.  I
can be sure, however, that the date is like that on the file before it
enters our network.
 
I've had similar problems before, for example if you FTP a file from a site
that has an cheap FTP daemon or some sort of filesystem issue.  I suspect
there is nothing really that can be done about this, except to advise the
user to check these things out before he/she logs out.
 
In an ideal world, the time would be set and this wouldn't be an issue.
However, this has happened numerous times in the past and will likely keep
happening well into the future.
 
Also I've been thinking, it's possible that the mtime is actually maxed out
as opposed to blank.  Perhaps Linux is looking at it as a negative number
using 2's complement arithmetic while Windows is looking at it as a
positive number.
 
Anyway, I'm beat.  I have no idea what to do about those stupid things.  I
suppose I could write a cron job to touch any files with that date?  What
say you?
 
Thanks for your reply.
 
Later,
Danny