samba - Aug 2002 - Offline File Syncing

Hello,

I'm using samba 2.2.4 as a fileserver in a Win2K domain with AD
functionality. Our users are using offline-folders for syncing with samba,
when offline or not at office. But recently many of them report failures
during the syncing process with a growing number of files. After studying
the logfiles, I was able to find out, that failing chmod attempts from the
clients are the reason. As didn't find any config option for deactivating
the chmods on client or server side, I want to try modifying the source
code, with the result every chmod on files not belonging to the accessing
user (99% belongs to root), are finished with state OK. So no errors are
reported to the clients.

Where to look for the change or maybe is there another solution to my
problem?

Thanks in advance,
Nikolaus

Hello,

On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 11:20:14AM -0500, drew.arthur@mail.sprint.com
wrote:
>Nikolaus,
>
>We are in the process of getting ready to test Offline Folder sync and I 
>was not sure if was even possible with Samba. It is good to hear that 
>somebody else is actually doing Offline Folder sync. So besides this 
I suppose you're a user, not a developer. It looks like there aren't
many
people using this feature, because you're the first one who answered and
groups.google didn't show much results.
>problem that you are having did you have any problems initially when 
>setting it up to work with Samba?
No, but these are big problems and I get several flames from our users
everyday :)
After grepping through google, I found out offline folders are pure client
functionality and need a "simple" smb client. 
So far, I wasn't able to find out more.

Thanks,

Nikolaus