[Samba] Modification Time Problem

[Victor Cicero]

On 8/1/07, Josh Kelley <joshkel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/31/07, Victor Cicero <vc6vc6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is this "modification timestamp" problem a known one? Or am I the
> > first to experience it? If it is know, has it been fixed? If not
> > fixed, is there a workaround I can use (short of working locally on
> > the hard drive)?
>
> Samba has two timestamp options in smb.conf that are supposed to help
> with this sort of problem: "dos filetime resolution" and "fake
> directory create times".  Have you tried enabling those options?
>
> Josh Kelley
>


On 8/2/07, James R Grinter <james.grinter at uk.nomura.com> wrote:
> You may get some benefit from a later Samba. They've changed
> the file timestamp resolution (to include more than just
> to the nearest second) in later versions.
>
> James.
>

Josh and James, thank you for your tips.

I first tried the "dos filetime resolution" option. It didn't help.
I then updated my Samba installation from 3.0.21a to 3.0.23a (that's
the most my Fedora Core 4 would allow using yum). That didn't help
either.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Victor