-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Mike McMullen wrote:
> Hi all, > > I searched the archives for a solution to this issue > but didn't find any thing. > > I have an office with a mix of PCs running ME and XP > that use Samba 2.2.7 under RH Linux 7.3 as an archive > for mortgage information. > > When documents are moved to the Samba share, the file > creation timestamp on the Linux box reflects the time the files > were created on the PCs. What I need is for the creation > timestamp to be when it was created on the Linux box by > the copy or move. > > We have some scripts that execute every 20 minutes that > use find to locate new files added within that time frame. > Files are falling through the cracks because the script > sees the original PC creation time and not the Linux creation > time. > > Any insight on how to remedy this will be great appreciated! You might be able to use the "map archive" parameter to help out. The creation date on a file on a Samba share is really the mod time of the file. Unix file systems only store 3 times (atime, ctime, & mtime). cheers, jerry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard ------------------------- http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team ---------------------- http://www.samba.org GnuPG Key ---- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc ISBN 0-672-32269-2 "SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed "You can never go home again, Oatman, but I guess you can shop there." --John Cusack - "Grosse Point Blank" (1997) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQE+KXMDIR7qMdg1EfYRAsUlAJ92SvnrUrgJ+azEQ5k35017kcMOZQCgy0ZW /dlNHmQjJL+29/n+uXKAK3w= =nMks -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba