[olug] Strange Samba File And Folder Icons

[Joe Catanzaro]

Thank you. It all makes sense. It just happens that all the files 
that were synchronized where the ones in my "My Documents" folder.

At 12/2/2005 01:14 PM Friday, Dave Weis wrote:

>On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Joe Catanzaro wrote:
>>The other night the lights on my hub started flashing like crazy. 
>>After having done some research, it turns out smbd on my Fedora 
>>Core 3 box running Samba 3.0.10-1.fc3 was doing something to a 
>>drive mapped on my XP SP2 box. When it finished, a large portion of 
>>the file and folder icons in the mapped drive had a double arrow 
>>added to the bottom of their file or folder icon. Like this: 
>>http://members.cox.net/joecatanzaro/samba_arrow_folder_icon.jpg 
>>Does anyone know what this means or what Samba is doing? I've gone 
>>through the logs and surprisingly they don't tell me much.
>
>It's an offline file/folder. Windows synchronizes against the server 
>to keep a portable copy of it.
>
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>Dave Weis
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Joe Catanzaro
joecatanzaro at cox.net