[gpfsug-discuss] Windows xattr/Samba

[orlando.richards at ed.ac.uk]

I had in my head that you'd need to be running samba 3.6 for that to work 
- although that was a while ago, and they may have backported it.

On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Barry Evans wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Anyone had success with windows extended attributes actually passing through samba over to GPFS?
>
> On a 3.4.0-13 system with samba 3.5.11 when trying to set a file read only through Win 7 explorer and attrib I get:
>
> [2012/08/15 18:13:32.023966,  1] modules/vfs_gpfs.c:1003(gpfs_get_xattr)
>  gpfs_get_xattr: Get GPFS attributes failed: -1
>
> This is with gpfs:winattr set to yes. I also tried enabling 'store dos attributes' for a laugh but the result was no different. I've not tried bumping up the loglevel yet, this may reveal something more interesting.
>
> Many Thanks,
> Barry Evans
> Technical Director
> CandIT Media UK Ltd
> +44 7500 667 671
> bevans at canditmedia.co.uk
>
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