samba - Mar 2002 - W2K and XP Offline files stopped working with 2.2.3a

Hi -

It appears that Samba 2.2.3a broke Windows ability to use offline files from
a Samba share.  This used to work fine under 2.2.2.  When a user syncs an
offline folder, everything appears to work properly, but once disconnected,
only a small portion of the files are visible in the offline folder, and the
files are not accessible - they give strange error messages about files
being read-only or encrypted. The same machines can synchronize files with a
Windows 2K server with no problems.

We have been able to reproduce this problem with clean Windows 2000 and XP
installs.  I have not had a chance to try an older version of Samba, but we
have been using current version of Samba with no problem for a year now.

Anyone else seen this problem?  Any suggestions?  I've got quite a few angry
laptop users out there.

Stuart


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On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 03:23:05PM -0500, Stuart Haas
wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> It appears that Samba 2.2.3a broke Windows ability to use offline files
from
> a Samba share.  This used to work fine under 2.2.2.  When a user syncs an
> offline folder, everything appears to work properly, but once disconnected,
> only a small portion of the files are visible in the offline folder, and
the
> files are not accessible - they give strange error messages about files
> being read-only or encrypted. The same machines can synchronize files with
a
> Windows 2K server with no problems.
> 
> We have been able to reproduce this problem with clean Windows 2000 and XP
> installs.  I have not had a chance to try an older version of Samba, but we
> have been using current version of Samba with no problem for a year now.
> 
> Anyone else seen this problem?  Any suggestions?  I've got quite a few
angry
> laptop users out there.
I posted the fix for this (it's already in SAMBA_2_2
CVS and HEAD) as a small patch a few weeks ago.

Here it is again.

Sorry for the bug,

	Jeremy.

--- smbd/nttrans.c.orig Wed Feb 27 12:34:12 2002
+++ smbd/nttrans.c      Wed Feb 27 12:34:58 2002
@@ -909,8 +909,8 @@
        if(oplock_request && EXCLUSIVE_OPLOCK_TYPE(fsp->oplock_type))
                smb_action |= EXTENDED_OPLOCK_GRANTED;
 
-#if 1 /* JRATEST */
-       /* W2K sends back 42 words here ! */
+#if 0
+       /* W2K sends back 42 words here ! If we do the same it breaks offline
sync. Go figure... ?
+JRA. */
        set_message(outbuf,42,0,True);
 #else
        set_message(outbuf,34,0,True);