> This was a mail from Mike .. the person who maintains samba
> Win95 had a bug workaround which reverses or shifts the bits in the
> timestamp to the right nine times
> to prevent corruption in the files .... If this option is not set then the
> shares accessed by samba will have files having garbage in their
timestamps
> However microsoft has fixed the bugs in Win98 ,NT hence if the option is
set
> during kernel compilation it cannot be overriden by the mount option ....
> See the docs
> I guess if you want to mount win95 shares ... recompile kernel without the
> option Win95 workaround
> ( RH 6.0 CD has a kernel with this option enabled by default)
> Mount win95 drives with smbmount and the flags 3755 where 755 are the
> regular protection mask security measures and the 3 stands for the sum of
3
> option .. Not the exact words
> 1) Directory access
> 2) Win95 bug workaround
> 3) .. Don't remember
>
> Sum of the required options =3 hence this will take care of win95 systems
,
> for the remaining systems
> mount normally
> Prevents timestamp corruption
> Whewww ... long mail .... but still informative
>
> HTH
long true ..... but information at its best :)
thanx for a prompt reply :)
Regards,
Jay Shah
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