[Samba] preserving ownership when copying from Windows to Samba

[Michael Gasch]

what about net rpc share migrate?

greez

Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 10:20 +0100, Artur Majdiuk wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I need to copy a huge amount of files and directories from a file server 
>> running Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4 to a file server running Gentoo 
>> Linux 2005.1 and Samba-3.0.14a compiled with acl, winbind, Kerberos and 
>> LDAP support. Both machines are members of an Active Directory domain. The 
>> data to copy reside on NTFS filesystem and have a complex ACL and 
>> ownership structure which has to be preserved during copying. For copying 
>> I am going to use Microsoft ntbackup tool which should preserve ACLs but 
>> what about ownership? Thanks for any suggestions.
> ----
> I believe that the tool to use is robocopy (I think it is in the Windows
> Resource Kits) and that should preserve attributes. 
> 
> I don't think that you can use Gentoo with an NTFS filesystem and expect
> it to preserve any attributes whatsoever so that may be an issue.
> 
> Of course, I could be wrong on both of these statements.
> 
> Craig
> 

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