samba - Oct 2002 - follow up to novell file issue and a question about "fstype"

Ok, I've done some further research into this one:

It appears that installing the Novell client on a Win machine has the
effect of replacing the  file copy command with one from Novell.  It also
seems that the NTFS filesystem has spaces for extra metadata, and the the
new Novell command is using those to store it's ACL.  I"m guessing that
this metadata is not storable via Samba, which would cause the errors i'm
seeing.

So my proposed solution is for Samba to emulate a non-NTFS filesystem.
I've found the fstype directive in the man page for smb.conf, but cannot
find a list of alternate settings for it.  (the man page lists "NTFS"
and
"Samba").  Is there a setting available for fat32?

Thanks,

Ben

Ben Calvert wrote:
> 
> Ok, I've done some further research into this one:
> 
> It appears that installing the Novell client on a Win machine has the
> effect of replacing the  file copy command with one from Novell.  It also
> seems that the NTFS filesystem has spaces for extra metadata, and the the
> new Novell command is using those to store it's ACL.  I"m guessing
that
> this metadata is not storable via Samba, which would cause the errors
i'm
> seeing.
> 
> So my proposed solution is for Samba to emulate a non-NTFS filesystem.
> I've found the fstype directive in the man page for smb.conf, but
cannot
> find a list of alternate settings for it.  (the man page lists
"NTFS" and
> "Samba").  Is there a setting available for fat32?
This paramater is a literal string, copied to the wire as-is  (I think).

But I'm interested as to what it's trying to store - the real NT ACL, or
some 'novell ACL' in case you copy it back?

Andrew Bartlett

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