samba - Nov 2003 - Can't use offline files in Windows 2000 properly

Hi,
I have Samba 2.2.3a running on a FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE system and a Windows 2000 
Pro laptop.

I am trying to use the offline files feature in windows to keep offline copies 
of some documents but it doesn't appear to play nicely with Samba :(

I setup some documents to sync and it appears to copy them over, and says it 
was successful, but after I go offline they are 0 bytes long and in the magic 
offline folder they are shown as "local copy incomplete".

I read http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/msg75181.html but unfortunately I 
can't use an ACL file system (I don't really want to upgrade to FreeBSD
5.x
for our main file server at this point :) Updating Samba 3 is probably an 
option if it will work.

I can provide debugging logs, and test patches etc if anyone is interested in 
helping.

FWIW the sync works fine against Win98SE machines so hopefully it will not be 
necessary to implement ACL stuff (pie in the sky dream? :)

Thanks in advance (and for a most useful piece of software)

-- 
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum
GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140  AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5

I was having problems with Offline folders and Samba 2.2.7 (running on RH8)
and upgraded to 3.0.1Pre and the problem appears to have gone away. I'm not
using ACL's either. My problem with offline folders was  not on writing them
to the local machine but on writing them back when it went back on the
network.

Note that 3.0.0 has a bug that allows certain Office docs - Word and Excel
to write over a file that is already open on another  machine, hence why I
went for 3.0.1Pre. I also found that the default settings on 3.0.1 are "nt
acl support = yes", you would need to change that to no.

Hope this helps

Nick

"Daniel O'Connor" <darius@dons.net.au> wrote in message
news:200311261511.53655.darius@dons.net.au...
> Hi,
> I have Samba 2.2.3a running on a FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE system and a Windows
2000
> Pro laptop.
>
> I am trying to use the offline files feature in windows to keep offline
copies
> of some documents but it doesn't appear to play nicely with Samba :(
>
> I setup some documents to sync and it appears to copy them over, and says
it
> was successful, but after I go offline they are 0 bytes long and in the
magic
> offline folder they are shown as "local copy incomplete".
>
> I read http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/msg75181.html but
unfortunately I
> can't use an ACL file system (I don't really want to upgrade to
FreeBSD
5.x
> for our main file server at this point :) Updating Samba 3 is probably an
> option if it will work.
>
> I can provide debugging logs, and test patches etc if anyone is interested
in
> helping.
>
> FWIW the sync works fine against Win98SE machines so hopefully it will not
be
> necessary to implement ACL stuff (pie in the sky dream? :)
>
> Thanks in advance (and for a most useful piece of software)
>
> -- 
> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
> for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
> "The nice thing about standards is that there
> are so many of them to choose from."
>   -- Andrew Tanenbaum
> GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140  AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5
>
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