samba - Feb 2006 - preserving ownership when copying from Windows to Samba

Hello,

I need to copy a huge amount of files and directories from a file server 
running Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4 to a file server running Gentoo 
Linux 2005.1 and Samba-3.0.14a compiled with acl, winbind, Kerberos and 
LDAP support. Both machines are members of an Active Directory domain. The 
data to copy reside on NTFS filesystem and have a complex ACL and 
ownership structure which has to be preserved during copying. For copying 
I am going to use Microsoft ntbackup tool which should preserve ACLs but 
what about ownership? Thanks for any suggestions.

Regards,
Artur Majdiuk

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 10:20 +0100, Artur Majdiuk wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I need to copy a huge amount of files and directories from a file server 
> running Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4 to a file server running Gentoo 
> Linux 2005.1 and Samba-3.0.14a compiled with acl, winbind, Kerberos and 
> LDAP support. Both machines are members of an Active Directory domain. The 
> data to copy reside on NTFS filesystem and have a complex ACL and 
> ownership structure which has to be preserved during copying. For copying 
> I am going to use Microsoft ntbackup tool which should preserve ACLs but 
> what about ownership? Thanks for any suggestions.
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I believe that the tool to use is robocopy (I think it is in the Windows
Resource Kits) and that should preserve attributes. 

I don't think that you can use Gentoo with an NTFS filesystem and expect
it to preserve any attributes whatsoever so that may be an issue.

Of course, I could be wrong on both of these statements.

Craig