[olug] Strange Samba File And Folder Icons

[Dave Weis]

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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