> Does Windows NT/2000 do any tests when serving shelved files, or does it > just assume that the client will do the right thing? It just aumes that the client will do all the "dirty" work :)
> The SMBD process must not make files with the offline attribute visible > to clients that do not support it. This means that SMBD must find out > that information somehow. No. This isn't correct. It is HSM product's thing to do triger read/open/write events and then it can put processes (threads) which access files to sleep - HSM product must implement a kernel module that has to triger open,... events. Client that doesn't know anythink about offline attributes just try to open files to get file icons. This is the second problem, because WinNT LANMAN server has a pool of processes and every connection to a LANMAN server got its own thread. This behaviour has its benefits - you can block an individual connection to LANMAN server whilest the second instance of Windows explorer on the same client can stil browse the share (it got its own thread) - samba asign 1 thread 1 client accessing a single share - this cause that if the thread is put to sleep, windows "hangs" until the thread is unsleeped (you can't start any other Windows explorer, nor you can't use a windows explorer which is already started) - workaraound is that you can close the three browsing window in Windows explorer and you can browse only the current folder. Regards, Damir -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
