samba - Jun 2008 - Offline files with Windows - again

Hi Guys

It saddens me to say so, but I'm going to have to order a copy of 
Windows Server unless I can get this issue of offline files resolved.

Basically, we have a problem when users have "Offline Files" enabled
in
Windows XP. When they log off, create or modify a file, and then log 
back on, the files they have created/modified refuse to synchronise, 
returning an error to the effect of "cannot synchronize test.txt, access 
is denied on //server/share/test.txt". I've spend several days googling
this but have had no success - there seem to be quite a few people who 
have experienced this problem, but no solutions that work. I've read 
several suggestions, including things to do with "ACL support", etc.
but
I've no idea how to do this...surely this should work out of the box? 
I'm using Samba 3.028 on Ubuntu 8.04. I'm not particularly experienced 
with Linux, so apologies if this is a simple thing to resolve.

Any help would be much, much appreciated.

Cheers, Russell

On Thursday 26 June 2008, Russell Curtis wrote:
> surely this should work out of the 
> box?
I'm sure it would if the protocols had been open and published all these 
years instead of closed and proprietary.

-- 
Chris

On Thursday 26 June 2008 03:47:06 Russell Curtis wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> It saddens me to say so, but I'm going to have to order a copy of
> Windows Server unless I can get this issue of offline files resolved.
>
> Basically, we have a problem when users have "Offline Files"
enabled in
> Windows XP. When they log off, create or modify a file, and then log
> back on, the files they have created/modified refuse to synchronise,
> returning an error to the effect of "cannot synchronize test.txt,
access
> is denied on //server/share/test.txt". I've spend several days
googling
> this but have had no success - there seem to be quite a few people who
> have experienced this problem, but no solutions that work. I've read
> several suggestions, including things to do with "ACL support",
etc. but
> I've no idea how to do this...surely this should work out of the box?
> I'm using Samba 3.028 on Ubuntu 8.04. I'm not particularly
experienced
> with Linux, so apologies if this is a simple thing to resolve.
>
> Any help would be much, much appreciated.
>
> Cheers, Russell
Russell,

Contact me off-line <jht@samba.org> and I will help you to resolve this.

- John T.
-- 
John H Terpstra
Samba-Team Member

Russell Curtis wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> It saddens me to say so, but I'm going to have to order a copy of 
> Windows Server unless I can get this issue of offline files resolved.
>
> Basically, we have a problem when users have "Offline Files"
enabled
> in Windows XP. When they log off, create or modify a file, and then 
> log back on, the files they have created/modified refuse to 
> synchronise, returning an error to the effect of "cannot synchronize 
> test.txt, access is denied on //server/share/test.txt". I've spend
> several days googling this but have had no success - there seem to be 
> quite a few people who have experienced this problem, but no solutions 
> that work. I've read several suggestions, including things to do with 
> "ACL support", etc. but I've no idea how to do this...surely
this
> should work out of the box? I'm using Samba 3.028 on Ubuntu 8.04.
I'm
> not particularly experienced with Linux, so apologies if this is a 
> simple thing to resolve.
>
> Any help would be much, much appreciated.
>
> Cheers, Russell
>
Have you set the smb.conf setting 'csc policy'?  Is it that you want 
and/or need offline files, or would you rather do without it?  I've 
found it to mostly be a pain, FWIW.