A problem has arisen with the way samba handles file creation dates compared to NT/win2k, which prevents xcopy /d from working correctly.
On NT/Win2k, files copied from another NT machine using xcopy end up with the modified dates equal to the original modified date of the file, and the created and accessed dates become the date of the xcopy operation. On Samba, files copied from an NT machine using xcopy end up with created & modified dates equal to the original modified date of the file, and the accessed date becomes the date of the xcopy operation. Dates are as reported from a windows NT client in both cases. The problem is that xcopy /d will NOT work as expected when attempting to use it to only copy newer files from NT to samba. Instead XCOPY /D will copy *all* files. This is a problem as we hope to migrate a large # of files from NT to samba and minimize downtime by using xcopy /d to refresh any modified files. In this case we will use a tape backup/restore to handle the modified files, but it would be nice to know if xcopy can be made to work with samba in this way? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Shawn Wright, Systems Manager Shawnigan Lake School http://www.sls.bc.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba