samba & file ownerships

[Michal Jezierski]

Gerald Carter wrote:
> 
> Stephen L Arnold wrote:
> >
> > > Is it at all possible to mount a FAT16/32 filesystem and use
> > > file ownerships on it? I expect not, but figured I should ask the
> > > question to find out for sure.
> >
> > Isn't that what the umsdos filesystem is for?  Probably only works
> > with fat16 though.
> 
> No.  There are no file permissions on FAT.

...and THIS is what umsdos filesystem IS FOR (see Stephen's answer) - it
enables file permissions for a LINUX directory on a FAT filesystem.

Michal