If you provide Samba with the ACLs during the copy -- and if the userid mapping is working -- the permissions and such will be preserved
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Win2000/Q_21281810.html describes a list of tools that will copy with ACL preservation On 10/25/2005 2:50 PM, Pseudomizer wrote: > Thank you Matthew for this information but you told me what we have already > in place. So every tool you mentioned like rsync, tar, robocopy, xcopy is > already in place to copy the files to maintain the permissions. > > The question will be what happens after the copy process? The files are now > copied to the new destination folder and now I have files there where the > owner of the file will be the windows user account who copied the file from > A to B. Assuming that there will be additional entries in the ACLs an > inherit of the permissions will not help here. The files will have entries > associated with specific SIDs. > > Will Samba be able to create the mapping to these "old permissions" when one > of the windows users try to access his files or other files? > > Regards, > > Pseudomizer > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag > von Matthew Easton > Gesendet: Dienstag, 25. Oktober 2005 03:54 > An: Pseudomizer > Cc: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: AW: AW: [Samba] Migration to Samba using external > LDAPserver(CLARIFICATION NEEDED) > > > On Oct 24, 2005, at 1:43 PM, Pseudomizer wrote: > > >>If we would copy the data with simple xcopy or robocopy using e.g. >>an admin >>account from the domain, then the files which will be created have >>which >>owner? Will the permissions still remain? > > > Other poster mentioned rsync. That or tar can preserve permissions > as they are in the original file. You can run them over SSH to > transfer files to another server. > > Not clear to me from your post whether you will need to run a tool on > windows to move the data around. If so, there is at least the > windows ssh client called putty > and a win32 port of tar http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/tar.htm > but I suppose that once you tar up the files, you can simply drag > them into a share on the new server and untar them with the -p flag. > > Aha. Now I see you may have some issue mapping the old windows user > to the new linux user uid. You can instead force user and group by > manipulating the attributes of the enclosing directory. > -- see the earlier thread "[Samba] See inherit user, need inherit > group" -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
