I have a question about the ability of Samba to cope with changing ownership of files. This situation occurs when using RCS on NT to access files on UNIX served up by Samba. I have spent a small amount of time on this and discovered that if a user checks in a file on UNIX and then does the same thing on Windows then RCS works. This is because the RCS archive file has the same owner in both cases and so RCS does not need to do anything with the ownership of the file. The problem arises when a different user checks in a file on UNIX and then a user on Windows tries to check in a file. This problem is related to the ownership of files. It looks like RCS creates a new version of the archive file and then it tries to save this new version over the old version making sure that the new file will be owned by the current user. It is this rewrite process that fails. Do you have any experience with the above problem, is there a Samba configuration variable that will enable this functionality. TIA Andrew
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Andrew Maguire (SWW) wrote:> I have a question about the ability of Samba to cope with changing ownership > of files. > This situation occurs when using RCS on NT to access files on UNIX served up > by Samba.A workaround is to switch from RCS to CVS (they are not that different, and there are conversion tools) and run a CVS server. /Urban