samba - Jan 2015 - MSDOS "System" Attriubute for Folders

I'm having trouble setting the DOS/Windows attribute flag "System"
on
Samba shared folders.

The [Share] level setting "map system = yes" makes the Unix group
execute bit be the "System" flag works fine on regular files, but not
on directories.

There is several ways to make files get the "hidden" attribute, but
only way that I've found to set the "System" attribute and it
doesn't
fully work.

Directories in a share need to have the "System" attribute set,
whenever you need Windows (XP/7) to process the folder's internal
desktop.ini file for that directory.
see:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/cc144102%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

I'm running Samba 3.5, on OpenBSD 5.6

Thanks,
Matt

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 09:04:29AM -0500, Matthew Heyse
wrote:
> I'm having trouble setting the DOS/Windows attribute flag
"System" on
> Samba shared folders.
> 
> The [Share] level setting "map system = yes" makes the Unix group
> execute bit be the "System" flag works fine on regular files, but
not
> on directories.
> 
> There is several ways to make files get the "hidden" attribute,
but
> only way that I've found to set the "System" attribute and it
doesn't
> fully work.
> 
> Directories in a share need to have the "System" attribute set,
> whenever you need Windows (XP/7) to process the folder's internal
> desktop.ini file for that directory.
>
see:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/cc144102%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
> 
> I'm running Samba 3.5, on OpenBSD 5.6
Set all the "map XXX" parameters to "no", and
just store the DOS attributes in an EA with
"store dos attributes = yes".

We really should change that to be the default
for 4.3.x and above, it's time. I don't think
we ship on any platforms that dont' support EA's
anymore.