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File times on a Win2K3 server from a Linux SMB client are rounded to 2 second intervals - how can we keep original file times?

Asked by drnavigator in Samba File Sharing, Linux Networking, Windows 2003 Server

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We are having a problem where the file times on files shared by a Windows Server 2003 server and accessed by a Linux client via an SMB mount are being rounded to the next lower 2 second interval.

This seems to be the same problem that the "dos filetime resolution" setting in smb.conf was designed to handle; however:
  a) this setting appears to only affect Samba shares shared by a *nix server (vs our shares being on a Windows server),
  b) this is already set to "false" in smb.conf on the Linux machine

I can't find anything comparable on either the smbmount or mount commands, but the Linux client is acting as if this setting is set to "true" at the smbclient level.  Any file creation/update commands (touch, cp, vi, etc) run on the Linux client against any file hosted on the Windows server all create a file whose time is rounded to 2 second intervals.  (Running equivalent commands from a Windows client attached to the same shared resource generate files with the correct timestamp, so the problem appears to be on the Linux side rather than the Windows side.)

The Linux machine is running SuSE 9.0 (2.4.21-291); the Windows server is running "MS Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003, Standard Edition x64" (WUDSS 2003).  This is for a one-time move of a large set of files from the Linux machine to the Windows SAN server, but we'd like to keep the original file times intact when the files are moved.Start Free Trial
 
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1 smb sharing not working (?)
2 SMBs
3 mount etc/fstab and smb connections…
4 SMB/NFS Question
5 SMB is stopped
6 SMB signings
 
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