samba - Nov 2011 - Maintain file ownership when writing to share with different owner

Hello,

I have a question regarding control of file ownership: I have shares accessed by
several users belonging to a group though the share is owned by only one of the
users. I can force the group id for files written to the share to match the
share group though I wondered if I can preserve the file's original owner id
(one of the users in the group) if a file is copied from another location?

Related to this question: I am looking for an up to date source of information
on using acls.

I have implemented acl and extended attribute support for storing dos file
attributes and metadata.

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 01:11:12AM -0500, Derek Lewis
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a question regarding control of file ownership: I have shares
accessed by several users belonging to a group though the share is owned by only
one of the users. I can force the group id for files written to the share to
match the share group though I wondered if I can preserve the file's
original owner id (one of the users in the group) if a file is copied from
another location?
> 
> Related to this question: I am looking for an up to date source of
information on using acls.
> 
> I have implemented acl and extended attribute support for storing dos file
attributes and metadata.
Look at the "inherit owner" option in smb.conf.