[Samba] inherit permissions option - feature or bug?

Chris Weiss cweiss at gmail.com
Mon Nov 15 10:38:35 MST 2010


move preserves, copy creates as new.  not a bug, by Windows design.

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:28 AM, R.Brunsendorf <rb at b2bytes.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> assume two folders (directory A and B) with the sgid-bit (2770) enabled,
> owned by different groups and located on the same samba-share with
> "inherit permissions" option enabled for the share:
>
> moving some files on a windows machine from directory A to dir B the
> group-ownership of the files do not change to the group owning directory
> B.
>
> Is this feature or bug? Copying works as expected: group-ownership changes
> to group owning dir b.
>
> I've tested with samba 3.5.6
>
> Regards
> Rolf Brunsendorf
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the
> instructions:  https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
>


More information about the samba mailing list