Re: smbfs timestamps

Chris Wedgwood (chris@f00f.org)
Mon, 24 Nov 1997 03:12:25 +1300


Message-ID: <347838B9.C78DE400@star.net>
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 09:07:53 -0500
From: Bill Hawes <whawes@star.net>
To: Chris Wedgwood <chris@cyphercom.com>
CC: chris@cybernet.co.nz, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: smbfs timestamps

Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>
> Oops. NT4(sp3).
>
> CONFIG_SMB_FS=m
> CONFIG_SMB_WIN95=y

OK, you definitely don't want to use the Win 95 workaround to talk to a
Win NT server. It slows down directory listings ('cause poor Win 95
can't keep up), and also substitutes old-style getattr calls (Win 95 is
very slow.) The latter would cause your timestamps to get messed up, as
Win NT appears to have a bug in its handling of core protocol getattr.

Please undo the CONFIG option and see if this helps ...

Yup. That fixed it.

When/if smbclient/smbmount gets integrated into mount(8) it might be a good
idea for this to be an option which is passed in to the kernel,
mount_version=1 or some such like.

Tomorrow I'll watch an NT box connect to an NT box and then a '95 box
connect to the NT box and see if the mounts are different.

-Chris