Just a guess, as I'm a Samba newbie, but if you're trying to *write* to the Samba mount, then the Samba server needs to give *write* permissions to that filesystem. On Red Hat Linux, this is typically done in
/etc/samba/smb.conf find the correct share, and look for the 'writable' option. After making changes, I think you need to restart samba. Not sure why rsync does a chown. HTH. -- Hardy Merrill Red Hat, Inc. Max Kipness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > Can someone tell me what the problem is here. I am doing an rsync on a > sendmail spool directory to a folder that is a samba mount. Why is rsync > trying to change owner? Does it have to? > > I tried manually changing owner (as root) on a file that is sitting on > the samba mount and I got the same operation not permitted error. Does > anybody know why this is? Or do I need to ask in a samba mailling list. > > Here is the error: > > chown var/spool/mail/[EMAIL PROTECTED] : Operation not permitted > chown var/spool/mail/[EMAIL PROTECTED] : Operation not permitted > chown var/spool/mail/[EMAIL PROTECTED] : Operation not permitted > chown var/spool/mail/[EMAIL PROTECTED] : Operation not permitted > > Thanks, > Max > -- > To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
