If you are copying between two unix machines it might be easier to just use NFS to mount the drives and copy the files over via cpio or something similar. I think that since samba is based in windos without much in the way of permissions, all the permissions get lost.
I personally run into problems with samaba when a user will create a dir and I want to put/remove files into it and have problems. I then have to telnet into my linux box and fix the permissions. Kindof a bummer, but at least the unix box is visible from windows. Hope this helps you out. - Paul On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 03:20:18PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hiya > > when using samba to copy one directory to another server.... it loses it > origional permission and owner settings. i guess it's like when copying a > users file to another directory whilst under root... it allocates root as > the owner of that file. > > is there any setting in samba to tell it to keep it's origional > permission/ownership rights?? else i will have to use tar in order to > recreate this new server. > > thanx > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
