[Samba] File permissions confusion

[James Moe]

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On 04/20/2011 09:42 AM, TAKAHASHI Motonobu wrote:
>>>   Is there a way to have the actual, real, local permissions shown to
>>> remote hosts?
> 
> No, CIFS essentially do not have the semantics of "permission".
> Because it is natively used to share Windows file system, which does
> not have the semantics.
> 
> The permissions of mounted shares are created by client CIFS module
> internally and vanished when umounted.
> 
> This is not the limitation of Samba or CIFS module but of CIFS
> protocol.
> 
> Use NFS instead.
> 
  Thank you.

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James Moe
moe dot james at sohnen-moe dot com
520.743.3936
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