Hi, On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 10:53:53PM +0100, Martin P. Hansen wrote: > On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Gilbert Cao wrote: > > When I copy a single file with the cp utility, with -p flag, to > > a smbfs mounted directory, the modification datetime is not preserved and it > > is set to the current datetime : > > I've had this problem too, cp was also emitting a warning about utimes: > > mph# mount -t smbfs -o-Eiso8859-1:cp850,-f660 //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/e$ /mnt > mph% cp -p INFO /mnt > cp: utimes: /mnt/INFO: Operation not permitted
I don't have this warning when copying files. All my mount directories are owned by my current (the one who does the copy) > > This was because I wasn't ``owner'' of the files. Adding the -u flag fixed > this. so, according to the mount_smbfs(8), the -u flag is not needed in my case. > > mph# mount -t smbfs -o-Eiso8859-1:cp850,-f660,-umph //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/e$ > /mnt > > Now my modification time is preserved. The problem still persists in my case : My samba server is a FreeBSD machine (//[EMAIL PROTECTED]/e$ <- I guess it is a Windows machine) But I still don't know why modification time is preserved when copying with gqview ... -- -------------------------------- (hika) Gilbert Cao http://www.miaouirc.com - MiaouIRC Project 2002-2003 http://www.bsdmon.com - The BSD DMON Power to serve IRC : #miaule at IRCNET Network --------------------------------
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