Re: [Samba] WinNT offline file attribute

2002-04-25 Thread John E. Malmberg
Damir Dezeljin wrote: > John Malmberg wrote: >> The SMBD process must not make files with the offline attribute >> visible to clients that do not support it. This means that SMBD >> must find out that information somehow. > > No. This isn't correct. It is HSM product's thing to do triger >

Re: [Samba] WinNT offline file attribute

2002-04-25 Thread Shirish Kalele
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Tim Potter wrote: >On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:36:30AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: > >> Yes, the problem is there is no standard POSIX call to tell if >> a file is offline or not. > >There is probably a way of getting this information using the DMAPI >specification which from

Re: [Samba] WinNT offline file attribute

2002-04-25 Thread Tim Potter
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:36:30AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: > > As I understood it (and I could be wrong), indicating offline wasn't a > > problem, the problem was finding out if a file was offline. I'm sure Damir > > could code up a custom fix to make Samba do it (using ioctl's or whatever)

Re: [Samba] WinNT offline file attribute

2002-04-25 Thread Damir Dezeljin
> Does Windows NT/2000 do any tests when serving shelved files, or does it > just assume that the client will do the right thing? It just aumes that the client will do all the "dirty" work :) > The SMBD process must not make files with the offline attribute visible > to clients that do not supp

Re: [Samba] WinNT offline file attribute

2002-04-25 Thread Jeremy Allison
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 07:47:29PM -0700, Shirish Kalele wrote: > Jerry, > > "csc policy" is for client-side offline caching. I think Damir is looking > for Samba to support files offlined by storage managers like HSM. Both are > called "offline files". One of the reasons the "csc policy" paramet

Re: [Samba] WinNT offline file attribute

2002-04-25 Thread Illtud Daniel
"John E. Malmberg" wrote: > Does Windows NT/2000 do any tests when serving shelved files, or does it > just assume that the client will do the right thing? I have OTG's DX2000 HSM software running on NT. We can serve HSM'd directories with the normal windows sharing to PCs or SFM/MacServerIP for

Re: [Samba] WinNT offline file attribute

2002-04-25 Thread Gerald Carter
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Shirish Kalele wrote: > Jerry, > > "csc policy" is for client-side offline caching. I think Damir is > looking for Samba to support files offlined by storage managers like > HSM. Both are called "offline files". One of the reasons the "csc > policy" parameter was so named.

RE: [Samba] WinNT offline file attribute

2002-04-25 Thread Ulf Bertilsson
> The shared folders with offline files works the sam way (a > client know of > offline attribute set and don't try to open any offline file). > > The easiest solution will be to define an entire share (in > smb.conf) to be > offline - to export offline file attribute for all files. > This a

Re: [Samba] WinNT offline file attribute

2002-04-25 Thread John E. Malmberg
Damir Dezeljin wrote: >>Also has anyone verified how a Windows 2000 system (The first to admit >>support for the offline bit) uses this information? > > WinNT sp6a, Win2k, WinXP, Win.Net* suport file offline attribute. The only > thing that windows (explorer) do is that them don't try to open t

Re: [Samba] WinNT offline file attribute

2002-04-25 Thread Damir Dezeljin
> Also has anyone verified how a Windows 2000 system (The first to admit > support for the offline bit) uses this information? WinNT sp6a, Win2k, WinXP, Win.Net* suport file offline attribute. The only thing that windows (explorer) do is that them don't try to open the file to get an file icon

Re: [Samba] WinNT offline file attribute

2002-04-24 Thread John E. Malmberg
Shirish Kalele wrote: > John E. Malmberg wrote: > >>The other part of the problem is identifying if the version of Windows >>that the client is running will honor the offline bit. >> > > How would this help? Also, how are Windows servers that support offlining > different in this scenario? > > S

Re: [Samba] WinNT offline file attribute

2002-04-24 Thread Shirish Kalele
John E. Malmberg wrote: > > Shirish Kalele wrote: > > > As I understood it (and I could be wrong), indicating offline wasn't > > a problem, the problem was finding out if a file was offline. I'm > > sure Damir could code up a custom fix to make Samba do it (using > > ioctl's or whatever) and d

Re: [Samba] WinNT offline file attribute

2002-04-24 Thread John E. Malmberg
Shirish Kalele wrote: > > As I understood it (and I could be wrong), indicating offline wasn't > a problem, the problem was finding out if a file was offline. I'm > sure Damir could code up a custom fix to make Samba do it (using > ioctl's or whatever) and distribute the fix as his patch. B

Re: [Samba] WinNT offline file attribute

2002-04-24 Thread Shirish Kalele
d be a generic fix. I remember there was talk of such a thing. Cheers, Shirish - Original Message - From: "Gerald Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Damir Dezeljin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, Apr

Re: [Samba] WinNT offline file attribute

2002-04-24 Thread Gerald Carter
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Damir Dezeljin wrote: > Any news about implementation of offline file attributes (also per share > offline attributes - some .conf parameter)? I looked into > Samba-3.0alpha17 and Samba-2.2 but I didn't found anything. Does "csc policy" in smb.conf(5) help? cheers, jer

[Samba] WinNT offline file attribute

2002-04-23 Thread Damir Dezeljin
Any news about implementation of offline file attributes (also per share offline attributes - some .conf parameter)? I looked into Samba-3.0alpha17 and Samba-2.2 but I didn't found anything. Regards, Damir -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: ht