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To whomever reads this, This post I accidentally sent to david himself, I am now sending it to the group. It will be out of order, and includes the strace. Regards Brian My apologies for any inconvenience. -------------- Hi David, Thanks for your response. The Error message is for e.g.: Cannot write file attributes of "\\MYHOST\backup\sparse\My Family Tree 6.0.zip.ffs_tmp".

...tion. (DeviceIoControl, FSCTL_SET_SPARSE) Hmm, that seems to indicate that the initial fsctl request is failing. Could you please try manually setting a file on the Samba share as sparse with "fsutil sparse setflag <file_on_samba_share>": https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc788025(v=ws.11).aspx Does it succeed when Samba is configured as per below? > Samba Version: > Samba version 4.4.4 > PID Username Group Machine Protocol Version Encryption Signing > --------------------------------------------------...

...tion. (DeviceIoControl, FSCTL_SET_SPARSE) Hmm, that seems to indicate that the initial fsctl request is failing. Could you please try manually setting a file on the Samba share as sparse with "fsutil sparse setflag <file_on_samba_share>": https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc788025(v=ws.11).aspx Does it succeed when Samba is configured as per below? > Samba Version: > Samba version 4.4.4 > PID Username Group Machine Protocol Version Encryption Signing > --------------------------------------------------...