Hi gang
I've been having some trouble with Samba I can't seem to work out
myself, and I was hoping someone can help.
The setup I have for web work is a Windows 2000 desktop (for
Dreamweaver, Ultraedit, Firefox+IE+Opera, and so on) and a debian
dev/test server with Apache and Perl (just simple CGI in this case, but
it varies).
To work on the files I mount a Samba share as a Windows drive, and just
edit everything directly on the Linux box (the apps are all set to use
Unix newlines etc). I can save/reload to see changes, and I generally
have half a dozens shell open on the box, and various other
infrastructure so that the who boxes work more like one hybrid machine
than two separate ones (in a previous incarnation they were even
duck-taped together).
This workflow has worked really well for me for a number of years, but I
always have trouble fiddling the samba setup to the right place.
For some reason, saving from the Windows box seems to reset the
permissions of the files. And in this particular case, that also means
644 (and thus not world-readable so nobody can do the CGI).
Now, I assume that Windows is doing something funky and delete/write'ing
the file instead of overwriting the file.
Could someone with more samba-fu than I explain if there's a way to make
these file writes behave themselves and maintain whatever permissions
they currently have?
Adam K
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