samba - Jun 2005 - Question about new Inherit Owner option

Apparently there's a new "Inherit Owner" option  for smb.conf that
allows you
to configure Samba to set the owner of a new file  or directory based on 
owner of the parent directory. That seems like a very  useful feature! 

My question is, does "Inherit Owner" also work when you  MOVE a file
from one
directory to another? In other words, if a file called  "text" is
owned by
"bob" and it's in the "bob stuff" directory(which is
owned by  bob), when you
move it to the "joe stuff" directory (which is owned by joe) will  the
ownership
of "text" change to joe? 

Or does this only work on  newly-created files? 

And does it work on directories too? 

Also,  when was "Inherit Owner" introduced? I have Samba 3.0.13 and
don't
seem to have  it there. Was it 3.0.14? 

Thanks in advance for the answers. 

Andy  Liebman

On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 06:33:44AM -0400, AndyLiebman@aol.com
wrote:
> Apparently there's a new "Inherit Owner" option  for smb.conf
that allows you
> to configure Samba to set the owner of a new file  or directory based on 
> owner of the parent directory. That seems like a very  useful feature! 
Thanks.
> My question is, does "Inherit Owner" also work when you  MOVE a
file from one
> directory to another? In other words, if a file called  "text" is
owned by
> "bob" and it's in the "bob stuff" directory(which
is owned by  bob), when you
> move it to the "joe stuff" directory (which is owned by joe) will
the ownership
> of "text" change to joe? 
> 
> Or does this only work on  newly-created files? 
If depends on how the move is being done - if it's a create new, copy data,
copy metadata (timestamps) then it'll work as a new file. If it uses the
SMBmv
command it won't. Almost no clients use SMBmv so you should be ok.
> And does it work on directories too? 
Yes.
> Also,  when was "Inherit Owner" introduced? I have Samba 3.0.13
and don't
> seem to have  it there. Was it 3.0.14? 
I added it post 3.0.14a.

Jeremy.