[LUNI] Re: [TechTalk] File Permission Problems

[jackb at guppy.us]

Yes the owner of the file will be who wrote the file to disk.  Unless 
you override that permissions what you wrote is what happens.

Look at this tells you how to fix it.

http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba/2003-February/091342.html



On 7 Jun 2003 at 11:47, Fhealy at aol.com wrote:

> 
> I came across this problem recently and there is probably a simple
> solution to it.
> 
> I built a new Linux file server running SAMBA that supports a network
> of windows clients. There is a directory (\public) that is designated
> to be shared by all users connecting with samba with a mapped P:
> drive. I created the directory and set permissions to 777. This
> directory contains two other directories (/TLCS and /TLCSAPPS) that
> contain a bunch of network applications. Unfortunately, I only have
> the capability to copy files our to Windows Workstations. When I copy
> the files and re-copy them back to the new file server, then end up as
> owned by whatever user I use for the transfer. Other users are then
> unable to use the network applications unless I manually reset the
> file permissions (a tedious process). The only thing that has so far
> occurred to be would be to copy the files into an archive on the linux
> system, copy the archive off to the Windows system, restore the
> archive to the new Linux system and open the archive to copy the
> files. Would this preserve the file permissions? Can you think of
> anything else?