On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 09:21:32AM -0600, Chris Weiss wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:01 PM, George <[email protected]> wrote: > > We setup a Ubuntu SAMBA 3.5 server and would like it to replace our current > > Windows 2003 file server. I can manually copy the files over but need to > > keep all the Windows UID's and GID's but am having trouble copying the files > > over. Does anyone have any idea what im doing wrong or have any ideas for me > > to do this? > > what are you using to copy? a normal file copy wont' keep permissions > even windows to windows, but robocoy will, and I think xcopy can
I just helped an OEM do a (successful) file migration complete with ACLs from Windows to Samba using robocopy, so I'd suggest that as the tool of choice. Remember to do the migration as a (temporary) root account, as robocopy may need to write ACLs that the migrating user cannot access. Will get fixed properly when I finish implementing SE_RESTORE and SE_BACKUP privileges but until then the root account works just as well. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
