I'm cleaning out my rsync mailbox and it looks like nobody responded to your questions.
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 02:56:18AM -0600, Poe Chen wrote: > Hi, all, > > I'd like to know if there is a way to set the ownership/group/permission > when you are transfering files from a Windows clients to a Linux rsync > server. > > I've tried following configurations, and none of them work. > > rsync -av --owner=test -g MyFolder 192.168.100.1::backup/test > > rsync -av --owner=500 -g MyFolder --numeric-ids 192.168.100.1::backup/test > > (500 is numeric id for user "test) The --owner option does not take a paramter. It just means to preserve the original owner when possible. > Is it possible that you can setup a rsync server that will preserve the > ownership/group from a Windows clients? I don't know much about Windows clients but I don't see why it wouldn't as long as the writer is running as root (or whatever the privileged user is on Windows NT/2000). > Or, is it possible to run rsync > client so that when the server stores the files, it sets to the user/group > specified at client's rsync option? Not on the command line, but if the receiver is runing as a nonprivileged user id then all the files will be owned by that user id. > So far, Linux to Linux rsync has no problem at all. The Windows clients > (NT and Win2000) are using cygwin1.dll v1.3.10 and rsync 1.5.4. > > Any suggestions will be appreciated. - Dave Dykstra -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html