native posix permissions

Gunnar Degnbol degnbol at danbbs.dk
Mon Jun 26 23:05:38 GMT 2000


>Have a look at Byron Deadwiler's paper that he presented at the CIFS
>conference: http://www.snia.org/news/Byron%20Deadwiler%20Paper.doc
>for the exact extensions that HP's proposed.

The cifs-unix 2.0 spec does not provide any mapping from numeric ids to 
user and group names. It doesn't have to map to Windows users/groups, it 
only has to make some sense to the user (numeric ids don't).

Gunnar



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