Dear Mike,

Thanks a lot for your info/howto.

In my case it turned out to be even more simple. I can edit smb.conf with
vi. Add the 'ea support = yes' line to the definitions for several shares.
Save and reboot (didn't find the samba restart). The smb.conf doesn't get
rewritten at startup. And the shares are usable from the WPS now.

Then the next test was reconfiguring smb shares in the web interface. It
turns out that 'ea support = yes' is not destroyed.

This is miraculous, I can now merge the storage for all my systems in one
place and stop bothering about the use of 4 different OS-es in my SOHO.

With kind regards,
Frank


>Frank van den Heuvel wrote:
>> Dear Mike,
>> 
>> Your writing interests me. I have a QNAP 209 Pro. It is a linux
based box and allows access by ssh. I just logged on and immediately saw a
link to busybox. Do you have some directions that I can start on how to
figure out what you did to get EAs working on yours.
>> 
>> 2ndly I have a problem a competely unrelated problem with Netdrive
and the Sambaclient plugin. I am using IBM Peer without problems, but I
cannot get the Samba plugin under Netdrive to do the same trick. The
smbcd.exe keeps crashing without a trace in the logfile.  I am using
Netdrive 3.1.0 (registered version) and the samba plugin
is:ndpsmb-3.0.27a-20071129.
>> 

>Frank,

>Sorry for the late response. Someone has posted the answer to your samba 
>question which worked for me.

>Now to the EAs, the mediavault will run a script during boot which was 
>listed on the yahoo group:
>http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/HPMediaVault/

>In that script I start twonky media server, copy smb.conf and restart 
>samba, and start syslogd.

>The mediavault firmware is compiled with EAs enabled but the smb.conf 
>file can not be configured to enable them and the smb.conf changes do 
>not last past normal change.

>So, I run the following at boot:

>#!/bin/sh

># copy over smb.conf with ea support enabled
>cp /shares/Volume1/ShareApps/opt/etc/smb.conf /tmp/samba/lib/smb.conf
>/usr/local/samba/bin/smbcontrol smbd reload-config


>This is an example of a smb.conf file I restart with, notice ea support =
>yes


>[sysbackups]
>        comment =
>        path = /shares/Volume2/sysbackups
>        writeable = yes
>        browsable = yes
>        inherit permissions = yes
>        inherit acls = yes
>        ea support = yes
>        msdfs root = no
>        invalid users = "ngreene", "sgreene",
"transfer", "anonymous",
>        read list =
>        write list = "mgreene",

>Mike




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