[Samba] Effect of setting "support dos attributes = no" in Samba 4.1.11

Rowland Penny rowlandpenny at googlemail.com
Tue Sep 2 10:34:36 MDT 2014


On 02/09/14 16:40, Klaus Hartnegg wrote:
> On 02.09.2014 16:48, Andrew Walker wrote:
>> What effect (if any) does setting "support dos attributes = no" have?
>> What are the use cases for setting it to "yes"?
>
> The wiki page
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setup_and_configure_file_shares_with_Windows_ACLs 
>
> states that "support dos attributes = yes" is required if you want to 
> use windows ACLs, and the option is by default on if samba runs as 
> active directory domain controller.
>
Hi, thanks for posting that link, I was getting a bit confused as I had 
never heard of 'support dos attributes' , it seems that this thread is 
really about 'store dos attributes' ;-)

Rowland


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