samba - Aug 2004 - VSS and Samba on Tru64 Unix

Good Afternoon All.

Please forgive me if this is an often-asked question, but ...

We're trying to get the ability to have users in the same UNIX group be able
to check-in and check-out files from a VSS repository.  All users in a defined
unix group should be able to copy, edit, and delete any file created by any
other user in that group.

As most of you probably already know, this works fine if the user checking the
file out is the same as the user checking it in.   But if the user trying to
check out a file is not the original user (ie. the unix user-owner) of the file,
VSS dies, since it can't remove the windows READ attribute from the file in
question.

Is there a workaround?  Is this perhap fixed in Samba 3.0?  (We're on
2.2.7).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Robert


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Robert Davis, OSCC
VMS/Unix Systems Administrator
SUNY Systems Administration
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Albany, NY  12246     USA
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e-mail:  davisrj@sysadm.suny.edu
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Hi there,
>                                                             All users 
>in a defined unix group should be able to copy, edit, and delete any 
>file created by any other user in that group.
>
>As most of you probably already know, this works fine if the user 
>checking the file out is the same as the user checking it in.   But if 
>the user trying to check out a file is not the original user (ie. the 
>unix user-owner) of the file, VSS dies, since it can't remove the 
>windows READ attribute from the file in question. 
>
I don't know which version it was introduced in, ut have a look at the
option 'dos filemode'.  I think it will do what you want.

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html#DOSFILEMODE

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