On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 05:49:46PM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > > > Please can someone clarify the purpose of the "ea support = yes" option in > smb.conf? > > According to the man page, it's there to allow _clients_ to attempt to store > OS/2 style extended attributes. As long as the underlying server filesystem > supports EAs, this will work. > > However, I've seen a number of references to setting "ea support = yes" when > people just want to store DOS attributes and ACLs as extended attributes. > > > Am I right in thinking this isn't actually needed in this use case? (I've not > got it set and things *seem* to be working, but want to check).
Yes you are right it isn't needed in this use case. > Is "ea support" used by any clients apart from OS/2? I believe Windows Services for UNIX uses EA's to store symlinks and POSIX names containign invalid Windows characters like ':' when exporting NFS. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
