[Samba] File Creation Dates Question

[Joel Hammer]

Here is what man smb.conf has to say:
dos filetimes (S)
              Under  DOS  and  Windows,  if a user can write to a
              file they can change the  timestamp  on  it.  Under
              POSIX semantics, only the owner of the file or root
              may change the timestamp. By  default,  Samba  runs
              with  POSIX  semantics  and  refuses  to change the
              timestamp on a file if the user smbd is  acting  on
              behalf  of  is  not  the  file  owner. Setting this
              option to  true allows DOS semantics  and  smbd will
              change the file timestamp as DOS requires.

              Default: dos filetimes = no

Now, it may be that the user smbd is running under doesn't own the file.

But, it may be that dos filetimes won't, at least by themselves, solve
this problem.

See my other post about a brute force workaround.

Joel


On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 09:34:08AM -0800, Mike McMullen wrote:
> Hi Joel,
> 
> Thanks for the response. I have set dos filetimes = yes in the conf
> file but that doesn't seem to have an effect.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joel Hammer" <Joel at HammersHome.com>
> To: "Mike McMullen" <mlm at loanprocessing.net>; <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 9:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] File Creation Dates Question
> 
> 
> > Just free associating here.
> > 
> > The parameter dos filetimes may relate to your situation.
> > 
> > If samba does not have an easy way of doing this, you might get
> > creative.  You might use force create mode to change the permissions
> > of the file when it is transferred (created?) to the samba share. For
> > example, you might make any new file transferred up to be unreadable
> > by anyone but the owner. Or, you could use force user to make it owned
> > by some bogus owner like newfile (which may have to exist).  Then,
> > every minute, on the server run a script which touch'es any file with
> > those ownership  or permissions characteristics. This script could also
> > change the file permission/ownership back to what they should be.
> > 
> > Joel
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 01:35:31AM -0800, Mike McMullen wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I searched the archives for a solution to this issue
> > > but didn't find any thing.
> > > 
> > > I have an office with a mix of PCs running ME and XP
> > > that use Samba 2.2.7 under RH Linux 7.3  as an archive 
> > > for mortgage information.
> > > 
> > > When documents are moved to the Samba share, the file
> > > creation timestamp on the Linux box reflects the time the files
> > > were created on the PCs. What I need is for the creation
> > > timestamp to be when it was created on the Linux box by
> > > the copy or move.
> > > 
> > > We have some scripts that execute every 20 minutes that
> > > use find to locate new files added within that time frame.
> > > Files are falling through the cracks because the script
> > > sees the original PC creation time and not the Linux creation
> > > time. 
> > > 
> > > Any insight on how to remedy this will be great appreciated!
> > > 
> > > Mike 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Mike McMullen
> > >  
> > > CIO - Baton, Inc.
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> > >  
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