Hi all Samba OS/2 users. I've just added OS/2 style extended attribute support into the SAMBA_3_0 subversion branch code.
This depends on the underlying OS supporting EA's and (on linux) the filesystem being mounted with the "user_xattr" mount option and the parameter "ea support = yes" being set in smb.conf.
Please check out this code and test it - let me know if there are any errors with using OS/2 EA's with Samba3 and I'll try and get them fixed before 3.0.14.
Thanks,
Jeremy
Ok, so this is the situation:
_ up to yesteday I had to stick to the old, unsupported, unsecure 2.2.12 release, since 3.x showed compatibility problems with OS/2;
_ now I tryied 3.0.12_1.1 using the FreeBSD port: the compatibility problem is there again. Everything works from the command line, but the WorkPlace Shell cannot work with remote shares. Extended Attributes also don't seem to work: if I do COPY xxx G:, then COPY G:xxx, they are gone.
_ then I tryied compiling myself (no patches) samba 3 SVN: if I leave EA support off everything works from command line and WPS like with 2.2 (this is enough for me, although the more the better). If I turn on EAs, the WPS can still browse shares, but I cannot copy any file *to* them; command line works fine. In any case EAs don't work (see above); I guess this is normal, since EA support on FreeBSD is added with port patches.
So, the conclusions are:
_ EAs just don't work on FreeBSD;
_ I'm left with the doubt wether the WPS bug is gone after 3.0.12 or it is introduced with the FreeBSD patches; I'll wait until 3.0.13 is incorporated in the port tree and check again.
Thanks to everyone.
bye
av.
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