[Samba] Archive bit not changed if not owner?

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Thu Oct 21 13:15:47 GMT 2004


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John Perazo wrote:
| We have a public share which is backed up from another machine, and use
| the archive bits to detect if files have been modified.
|
| If I create a file in the public share, the archive bit is set.
|
| If I clear the archive bit, and then modify the file the archive bit
is set.
|
| On the other hand, if I modify a file that is owned by someone else, the
| archive bit doesn't get set - any ideas on why this is?

set 'dos filemode = yes' in the share.





cheers, jerry
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