On 7/09/2010 12:00 PM, Frank Shute wrote: > On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 11:39:19AM +1000, Danny Carroll wrote: >> >> Today I decided to make a backup of some of my unix data to an XP >> machine in preparation for a migration. >> I set windows XP backup running and when it started backing up files in >> my home directory I noticed that it set u-x permissions on all of the >> files. >> Directories are unaffected. >> >> If I use XP's security dialog to set the permissions back, they are >> applied OK. >> >> Has anyone seen this behaviour before? >> > > Yeah, it does that because it doesn't understand unix permissions. > > Proper way to back up to XP is to make a tarball of your $HOME first & > then copy it to XP, that way the permissions are preserved. >
Hmmm. Apart from creating a readonly share, is there a way to tell samba to disallow this? Perhaps there is an option to disallow permissions updates altogether. -D _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"