[Samba] Error copying files with extended attributes to Windows clients

Andrew Berry andrew at furrypaws.ca
Wed Nov 8 01:45:25 UTC 2017


On Sun, Nov 5, 2017, at 07:26 AM, Ralph Böhme wrote:
 
> looks like it's now silently skipping xattrs with a colon in their name
> instead
> of erroring out.
> 
> Also, why on earth are the parts of the xattr names after the user
> namespace
> prefix all uppercased?

I'm trying to find out how Windows is storing the attrs to see if it's
responsible for skipping the colons and the doing the uppercasing, or if
this is somehow a Samba bug. When I run:

dir /r | find ":$"

I don't see any attrs on the test file. Any ideas?

--Andrew



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