[p4] Problems with Samba

[Stephen Vance]

Can't help you with the Samba issue, but a quick fix would be to set the 
clobber option on the client spec.

Steve

At 03:05 PM 7/10/2001 -0400, Dave_Pfaltzgraff at patapsco.com wrote:




>Dave Pfaltzgraff at PATAPSCO
>07/10/2001 03:05 PM
>
>I believe this is a problem on the Samba side, but I'd
>like to describe it here to see if others have also seen
>it and/or worked out a solution.
>
>The scenario is:
>   Perforce is running on a Linux system
>   Development is on Win98/Win2000 systems
>     These have a network drive mapped from a Samba system
>     to a user's drive (F:)
>
>Problem:
>   Whenever files are synced down for the workstation, they
>are copied, but the Read Only attribute is not set. This
>leads to all sorts of Perforce messages when trying to
>Remove files from client as Perforce sees that the file
>is writable when it should be read-only.
>
>Have others seen this? Is there a 'quick' solution?
>
>Thanks,
>Dave
>
>
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