At 14:39 4/04/00, you wrote:
>On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Jason Bradley Nance wrote:
>
> > > I am not a fan of NFS, but don't you lose ALL security permissions of
> > > files and directories if you use smbmount to backup your computer?
> >
> > No. You can configure Samba to preserve file permissions, etc.
>
>Could you elaborate on that?
>
>Samba (being a clone of MS Networking) has no concept of user-group-other
>permissions. Sure you can set it to enforce a certain set of permissions,
>but it is far from what is available in Unix.
>
>Also don't forget that the origianl post was with regards to making
>backups using either samba or NFS. For example, what would permissions of
>"/tmp" be after you backup and restore via samba?
>
>Hossein
An easy way around this.
Backup using tar to a samba share directory, then just backup the tar file.
All perms will be restored with the tar file (Assuming you use cvpf option)
It works like a treat. (For me anyway)
Darryl
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