I've posted this problems before but have some new information. Suse 9.1, kernel 2.6.5-7.111-smp, reiserfs, SAMBA 3.0.9 (just upgraded to 3.0.20 today), OpenLDAP backend, as a PDC.
I've had a series of files get created in user profiles with a mtime of Dec 13, 1901 14:45. 'stat -c %Y' reports -2147483648. When a user attempts to delete these files from their profile and then log out, the file does not get deleted from the server copy of the profile. I figured out that this was because SAMBA represents this date to Windows as Jan 2038 so it thinks the server copy has a newer file in it. I suspected this was a Windows problem, but it appears in every version of Windows, not just XP. If I touch the file and give it any other date, Say Dec 14, 1901 14:45, Windows correctly displays that date. This is not a filesystem problem, fscheck is clean as a whistle, this must be a SAMBA issue. I suspect that whatever problem causes the misrepresentation in date is also what causes the date to be wrong in the first place. Any help? Thanks -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
