samba - Jun 2010 - Preserve create/modify dates and attributes in samba

I have Samba 3.4.7 running with basic shares under Ubuntu 10.04, though I am
interested in configuring Samba to store the Windows file attributes and
create/modify dates.  I have found some hints to this being done though no
details.  I have experimented with NTFS and found that most of the attributes
and modified/accessed dates are preserved.

If Samba 3.4.x will not store the file information, will Samba 3.5?

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 04:18:40PM -0400, Derek Lewis
wrote:
> I have Samba 3.4.7 running with basic shares under Ubuntu 10.04, though I
am interested in configuring Samba to store the Windows file attributes and
create/modify dates.  I have found some hints to this being done though no
details.  I have experimented with NTFS and found that most of the attributes
and modified/accessed dates are preserved.
Mount the filesystem with extended attributes supported,
then set:

	ea support = yes
	store dos attributes = yes
	map readonly = no
	map archive = no
	map system = no

in the [global] section of your smb.conf.

Jeremy.

I have configured Samba 3.4.7 with extended attributes enabled to preserve
file create/modify dates.

 

I went ahead and tried to map a network drive, and successfully copied a
file over to samba, though the create date is set to the modified date on
the copy.

 

For my /etc/fstab, I have set the following options set for a ext4
filesystem: auto,relatime,errors=remount-ro,user_xattr

 

Do I have to change the default kernel configuration for Ubuntu 10.04 or
apply a patch to the filesystem to get extended attributes to work?  Do I
have to upgrade to Samba 3.5?

 

Derek