One question.

The fact that client ignore ACL capabilities of server, it is also normal for 
current smbfs implementation?

On Dec 16, 2009, at 9:28 PM, James Peach wrote:

> 2009/12/16 Jeremy Allison <j...@samba.org>:
>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 07:00:09PM +0100, Anton Starikov wrote:
>>> And although it creates directory, it doesn't copy contents, because it 
>>> stops process of copying directory after this error. If I repeat filesync, 
>>> the contents of directory will be copid (cause directory is already here).
>>> 
>>> So, it looks exactly the same.
>>> If so, then problem in chflags().
>>> I expect that samba on linux is compiled without support for chflags, 
>>> obviously.
>>> 
>>> I presume that settings "unix extensions = no" would probably fix this, but 
>>> it has a drawback, because then you loose native unix things like symlinks 
>>> etc.
>>> 
>>> Which is, at least in our case is not possible, cause shares accessed by 
>>> both, mac and linux clients over NFS (the same clients on different hosts) 
>>> and symlinks are heavily used.
>>> 
>>> I think, OSX client, when it sees that server supports "unix extensions", 
>>> expects that on other side is OSX server with samba which supports chflags.
>>> 
>>> So, if we don't discuss rewrite of OSX cifs FS, then only solution is to 
>>> "emulate" chflags support on samba side (or convert flags to XFS/ETX3 attrs 
>>> somehow)
>> 
>> Hmmm. Looks like a client bug then, in that they don't cope with an
>> error on chflags set. What error is the Samba server returning here ?
>> 
>> George, what errors can the MacOSX client cope with and continue ?
> 
> FileSync wants to create accurate copies of files, including all their
> metadata. We just pass the error up the stack. The current code does
> not look too closely at the unix capabilities, we  should be looking
> at the flags mask in the UNIX_INFO2 response and handling the case
> where the server doesn't understand any flags.
> 
> Please file a bug at http://bugreporter.apple.com and attach the
> packet trace. This will help us to make a case to fix this in an
> update.
> 
> -- 
> James Peach | jor...@gmail.com

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