[Samba] Using SMB_VFS_IS_OFFLINE for directories.

[Dean Roehrich]

On 07/18/2014 12:41 PM, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 01:18:41PM -0500, Dean Roehrich wrote:
>> I made a small change to source3/smbd/dosmode.c to let my plugin on
>> my linux box return FILE_ATTRIBUTE_OFFLINE for directories, and so
>> far Windows (2008) seems okay with it.  It displays the folder icon
>> with the "X" over it and it navigates the folder hierarchy without
>> trouble (so far).
>>
>> I can see that the SMB_VFS_IS_OFFLINE code went in originally for
>> DMAPI support (Bokovoy, Jan 2008, commit d86fc3ec) and that DMAPI
>> doesn't have the concept of punching a directory like it does for
>> files.  So that would explain the limitation in the original code.
>>
>> But, has anyone used this for directories?
>
> Not that I know of. Can you post your patch so
> we can take a look ?
>
> Do you have any test code that will allow us to
> ensure this doesn't break anything (preferably
> something that runs against Windows first :-) ?
>
> Jeremy.
>

I've attached the patch.

Right now the only testing I've done is to have a plugin that always 
returns 'true' to the SMB_VFS_IS_OFFLINE() op and then on the windows 
box I manually navigate through the folder hierarchy.


Dean

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