Operation not permitted?

[Hardy Merrill]

Just a guess, as I'm a Samba newbie, but if you're trying
to *write* to the Samba mount, then the Samba server needs
to give *write* permissions to that filesystem.  On Red Hat
Linux, this is typically done in

  /etc/samba/smb.conf

find the correct share, and look for the 'writable' option.
After making changes, I think you need to restart samba.

Not sure why rsync does a chown.

HTH.

-- 
Hardy Merrill
Red Hat, Inc.

Max Kipness [mkipness at geniant.com] wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Can someone tell me what the problem is here. I am doing an rsync on a
> sendmail spool directory to a folder that is a samba mount. Why is rsync
> trying to change owner? Does it have to?
> 
> I tried manually changing owner (as root) on a file that is sitting on
> the samba mount and I got the same operation not permitted error. Does
> anybody know why this is? Or do I need to ask in a samba mailling list.
> 
> Here is the error:
> 
> chown var/spool/mail/********@*******.com : Operation not permitted
> chown var/spool/mail/********@*******.com  : Operation not permitted
> chown var/spool/mail/********@*******.com  : Operation not permitted
> chown var/spool/mail/********@*******.com  : Operation not permitted
> 
> Thanks,
> Max
> -- 
> To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync
> Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html