[Samba] Re: copying over an existing file when not owner

Dragan Krnic dkrnic at lycos.com
Thu Aug 26 22:53:58 GMT 2004


|> If I try to copy a file to a samba share which
|> already contains an earlier version of the same
|> file, the file will still belong to me and the
|> date will be the date of the source file.
|> 
|> But if I copy a file over an existing homonymous
|> file which belongs to someone else, then the file
|> will still belong to that other user but the date
|> will be the date at the moment of copying.
| 
| Try setting 'dos filetimes = yes'.  See the smb.conf(5)
| man page for details.

Read the darned manual.
Thank you, Gerald.

I must have mixed "dos filetimes" with the notion of
dos time resolution. It solves my problem and it says so.


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