Redhat – Transfer files with extended attributes: Redhat to Redhat

To get the DOS attributes into Linux you will need to edit your smb.conf file.

There are two different ways to import Windows attributes.

The first option is to set map hidden = yes which will mean that hidden files on Windows will have the world execute bit set on Linux. For this to work you must also have at least 001 in your create mask.

The other option is to set store dos attributes = yes which will mean that the Windows attributes will be stored in an extended attribute in the Linux file system called user.DOSATTRIB.

rsync doesn't have the ability to filter files based on either normal or extended attributes but it can exclude a list of files that you have prepared in some other way. You can use the find command to create this list based on Unix attributes. The version of find I have doesn't seem to support extended attributes but it might still be possible to use the -exec option in find to get extended attributes of all your files and filter on them.

Since find can filter on normal Unix permissions, if you chose the world execute bit option then find . -perm -001 will find all of the hidden files in your mounted Windows filesystem. You can put this list in a file and then use rsync --exclude-from=FILE to exclude those files from your rsync.

Scp might have a verbose option, try that and see what it shows. I had a similar issue once and turned out that some commands in .profile or .bashrc on the target machine were writing out a blank line with non printing chars. That caused an issue with the ssl handshake