[AdamRuck]

Hi there,

Thanks for responding!

Originally Posted by Go3iverson

Adam,

A couple of things to look at. First, you can check the actual permission as Mac OS X sees them. On the server, navigate in the terminal to the share and perform a ls -l to get the long attributes. They are probably going to be viewed as attribute files, as denoted by a "@" at the end of the permissions. You could look into xattr to manipulate the attributes of the file. This, though, can be a bit longwinded as you'd have to inspect all the instances.

If you look at my first quote you can see that I have done a ls -al@ on a directory that contains files with extended attributes. There are several commands I can use to remove the extended attribute, however it is not reasonable for me(or my other System Administrators) to do that every time after someone logs out of their profile.

What I'm looking for is some way to insure that

a) Those extended attributes never get there in the first place

or

b) Fix either windows or smbd to make files with extended attributes not an issue.

Originally Posted by Go3iverson

Another idea would be to eliminate the "roaming" part of the profile. If you are interested in that (depending on your needs), you could look into the smb.conf file and change the logon path value to be empty (ie "logon path = "). If you are interested in that, be sure to test this out on a test server and not on your live server.

The department in my company that needs roaming profiles has more techs than computers, so they are forced to play musical chairs. Also, it should be noted that this issue isn't limited to just the login action of windows. Copying a file manually from a samba share hosted on the PDC, to anywhere on the local computer, will fail if the file has extended attributes. This occurs even after a successful login.

Originally Posted by Go3iverson

Finally, the happy medium solution, would be to tell the clients to stop caching the thumbnails. You can do that on the Windows clients by going to My Computer -> Tools -> Folder Options -> View -> Checkbox "Do Not Cache Thumbnails. I believe you can also try adding veto files = /Thumbs.db/ to the smb.conf file to eliminate them as well.

That is a good idea, thank you. We frequently add and replace computers. Is there some way to make this a group policy?

It should be noted that only solves part of my problem though. When you create bookmarks in certain web browsers, the web pages icon gets stored as an extended attribute. That also causes things to break.

Originally Posted by Go3iverson

Remember, try all of these ideas on a test server that is not critical to your environment to see how they interact with your specific needs and installation! If you feel that this is a bug, you should report it to Apple at bugreport.apple.com!

Michael

Of course

Thank you for your help.

Regards,

Adam