samba - Feb 2003 - Maintain file ownership when saving office documents

Hello.

If a user stores an existing office document on a samba share, he takes
ownership of it automatically. Office writes a new file. (Different
inode, same name) Is there a possibility of going this round and keeping
the owner?

MfG
Tobias Leers

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tobias Leers [mailto:tol@k-is.de]
> If a user stores an existing office document on a samba 
> share, he takes
> ownership of it automatically. Office writes a new file. (Different
> inode, same name) Is there a possibility of going this round 
> and keeping the owner?
I don't see how.  How would the server know to do this?

>> If a user stores an existing office document on a samba 
>> share, he takes
>> ownership of it automatically. Office writes a new file. (Different
>> inode, same name) Is there a possibility of going this round 
>> and keeping the owner?
> I don't see how.  How would the server know to do this?
I don't know. A win 2000 box knows this... We want to use a samba as
full qualified replacement for a win 2000 file server. Is this possible?
There are still some quite mysterious behaviors of the ACL management we
can't solve. I think, ACL isn't maturated for a proper windows
replacement.