[Samba] "attrib +R myowndir" fails to write-protect my own dir

[jra at dp.samba.org]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 07:23:30PM +0100, Dragan Krnic wrote:
> A trivial case:
> 
> executing the following DOS command from the prompt line on a Win2K SP3:
> 
>    %windir%\system32\attrib.exe +R H:\dir
> 
> can't set the R(eadonly) flag on my home dirs (2.2.7):
> 
>    drwxrwsr-x  4  me  users  4096 Nov 27 17:59 .
>    drwxr-sr-x  2  me  users  4096 Nov 27 17:59 dir
>    -r--r--r--  1  me  users     0 Nov 27 17:59 empty.txt
>    drwxr-sr-x  2  me  users  4096 Nov 27 17:27 profile

This is by design. From the source code :

  if (IS_DOS_DIR(dosmode)) {
    /* We never make directories read only for the owner as under DOS a user
       can always create a file in a read-only directory. */

Jeremy.