[Samba] Maintain file ownership when saving office documents

Tobias Leers tol at k-is.de
Wed Feb 26 13:35:25 GMT 2003


>> If a user stores an existing office document on a samba 
>> share, he takes
>> ownership of it automatically. Office writes a new file. (Different
>> inode, same name) Is there a possibility of going this round 
>> and keeping the owner?

> I don't see how.  How would the server know to do this?

I don't know. A win 2000 box knows this... We want to use a samba as
full qualified replacement for a win 2000 file server. Is this possible?
There are still some quite mysterious behaviors of the ACL management we
can't solve. I think, ACL isn't maturated for a proper windows
replacement.



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