Hi everyone, Thank you for reading my post.
I have some data on a "Windows Server 2003" machine I put there temporarily (quite a big amount of data: 44.8 GB). I have copied them back on my Samba server (Debian Lenny hosts the server). I have had two different types of problems: 1) Date problem: ---------------- some very "old" files which I hadn't touched for an eternity (or so :)) have had their date changed to say 2009/10/07 (7th of October 2009, the day I copied the data from the Windows to the Lenny server) which is not normal and which is very problematic. For example: - on the Windows server, there is a file <foo.ext> which date is 2007/06/04 - on the Samba server, after copying it, its date is 2009/10/07. (I am talking about the "Date Modified" as it is named on Windows machines). 2) Owner and owner group problem: -------------------------------------- I was logged as <user1> on the Windows 2003 server. <user1> is a Samba user (declared on the Samba server, member of the "/etc/samba/smbpasswd" file). So, if I understood well the meaning of the Samba config. file: normally when a file is copied on the server, its owner is <user1> and its owner group is "domadm". Some files have had their owner and owner group set to "root" preventing as a result <user1> to write them. Here is my "/etc/samba/smb.conf" config. file to check what I said before: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [global] workgroup = <workgroup_name> server string = %h Samba server log level = 1 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY logon path = logon home = domain logons = Yes os level = 128 preferred master = Yes domain master = Yes remote browse sync = yes [<share_name>] comment = <share_name> path = /<share_path>/<share_name> force group = domadm read only = No create mask = 0664 directory mask = 0775 guest ok = Yes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Can you tell me if I misconfigured something? If I should add someting to my config. file to avoid such problems? Do you think what happened was a Samba server malfunctioning? Thank you for your help and all the best, -- Lmhelp -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Files-copying---date-and-owner...-problems-tp26005868p26005868.html Sent from the Samba - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba