winbindd and copying NT files/ACLs

Kohei Yoshida kyoshida at mesco.com
Tue Jan 15 10:44:03 GMT 2002


On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 08:51, David Brodbeck wrote:
> Copying to an NT server doesn't preserve them either, as I recall.  Network
> copies just don't preserve ACLs...the file gets the default ACL for the
> folder it's going into.  If you find a good way to do this kind of migration
> while keeping the ACLs intact you'll make a lot of people very happy. ;)

Well, I think Jerry once said xcopy with the correct switch copies
directory trees with ACLs preserved.  I just don't know what switch to
use though, and the Windows 2000 help isn't really helpful in this
regard...  However I did find via Google search that the '/o' switch
accomplishes this if copying from Win2k.

Kohei

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Helmer [mailto:robert at namodn.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 6:53 PM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: winbindd and copying NT files/ACLs
> 
> 
> However, if I copy a folder from the 2000 server to the Samba server,
> the ACLs seem to be reset, is a network file copy supposed to preserve ACLs
> in 2000? If so, does this work/not work with Samba currently?
> 
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