On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 15:03, Randall J. Parr wrote: > From an RH8 server, I am accessing an RH73 server using Samba. > > I have Samba configured on both servers and have no problem accessing > the servers from each other and from W2K systems. > > BUT when, from (for example) the RH8 server, I copy files from a Samba > mount of the RH73 server I loose the uid/gid/perms. > > Can anyone point me at a way to configure the Samba server and/or client > so that uid/gid/perms are preserved when performing such a copy? > > Thanks > R.Parr > Temporal Arts The behavior you are seeing is to be expected, as Windows has no notion of uid/gid, and samba emulates the Windows protocols. You should be using nfs if you want to preserve ownership of the files. -- Chris Kloiber -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
