[olug] Strange Samba File And Folder Icons

[Daniel Linder]

To expand on what Dave Weis wrote, someone on the XP machine right-clicked
on the folder or drive letter mapped to your Samba box and choose the
"Make Available Offline" option.



Just un-check that for the files you don't want to have synchronized and
this will go away.



Dan



On Fri, December 2, 2005 13:14, 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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