Hi Jeremy, tms3, Thanks for your responses. I had tried "nt acl support = no", but It didn't help. I tried placing it under my share [homes] and also under [global]. Both didn't help. The group and world write bits are getting set unless I prevent it by using a "create mask". The application I am using is "Beyond Compare" on a Windows XP desktop.
"create mask" is not what I want because I do not want any changes to the permission of Unix files - neither setting any bits nor clearing any. Best regards, Aneesh --- On Sun, 5/16/10, Jeremy Allison <j...@samba.org> wrote: From: Jeremy Allison <j...@samba.org> Subject: Re: [Samba] Preventing Windows from changing file permissions To: "av78us vaal" <av7...@yahoo.com> Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Date: Sunday, May 16, 2010, 5:48 AM On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 04:30:54AM -0700, av78us vaal wrote: > Hi, > Is there a way to configure samba such that Windows applications are not > allowed to change file permissions for existing files in the share. > I just want to be able to read and modify the files from Windows without > affecting the file permissions inadvertently. I do not care about any Windows > side file attributes such as ACL. > I tried several things including parameters such as 'map archive = no', > 'security mask = xxx' etc. Nothing seem to result in what exactly I want This > is surprising considering that my requirement is very simple. You can always set "nt acl support = no", which is an old option from when we first added Windows ACLs. Also setting map XXX = no will stop DOS attributes being mapped to POSIX permissions. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
