On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:53:41AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey there, I posted a quick fix for a problem I found with all samba's up > to 2.2.7a on the general samba list, which describes the following > problem: > > In Windows, if you create a file with NORMAL attributes and ALWAYS_CREATE, > close the file and then re-create it with, say, HIDDEN and ALWAYS_CREATE, > the file *should* be upgraded to HIDDEN. The other way around, ie. > starting with HIDDEN and re-creating with NORMAL should keep the file as > HIDDEN. Currently, samba always keep the original attributes. This causes > windows to incorrectly store hidden and system files from in a roaming > profile which gets you that stupid popping-up Desktop.ini in new profiles > after the second login (because the files are not hidden on the profile > directory). Why windows opens the files as non-hidden first is unknown to > me :) Anyways, here is a patch that fixes it. I have tried my best to make > it as clean as possible but as I know little of samba internals it may be > wrong ... > > This works for me, and stops Desktop.ini appearing all over the place. I > haven't found any problems with it yet.
Thanks for this - I didn't apply exactly this patch but it inspired me to write something I believe is correct. I applied it to HEAD and 3.0, and will back-port to 2.2.x. Thanks once again ! Jeremy. PS. Andrew Bartlett - we now pass the torture test OPEN #9 when map hidden and map system are set :-).
