samba - Oct 2005 - chown on smbfs doesn't work ??

Hi,

I have a Network Storage Device mounted as smbfs. When I transfer data
using rsync, the permission of files transferred changes automatically
to 502.501. 
I couldn't even issue a command chown. The error message said that
"changing ownership of `thisfile': Operation not permitted

Can someone please advise me to get around with this problem?

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On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 14:52 +1000, Ong, Loeng Seng
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a Network Storage Device mounted as smbfs. When I transfer data
> using rsync, the permission of files transferred changes automatically
> to 502.501. 
> I couldn't even issue a command chown. The error message said that
> "changing ownership of `thisfile': Operation not permitted
> 
> Can someone please advise me to get around with this problem?
> 
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1. smbfs isn't part of samba

2. smbfs doesn't support unix permissions so changing ownership is
irrelevant as the owner/group is the owner/group specified when the
remote filesystem was mounted.

3. perhaps smbfs mount isn't what you really want

Craig


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