[p4] Permissions across Samba share

Stephen Vance steve at vance.com
Fri Jul 20 16:59:15 PDT 2007


The problem is that Windows doesn't have a concept of "executable"
except by the extension. There's no way for a Windows program to set
Unix file permissions over a Samba mount.

Steve

lokowich wrote:
> I've been using P4Win for Linux and Windows development per the Alt-Root 
> scheme.  This works well except for my files that need to maintain 
> Writeable or Executable permissions across the Samba share.  How can I 
> configure my client or Samba to keep write/execute attributes when 
> managing files across platforms?  I currently use the command line 
> client on Linux to deal with this issue, but would like it to work with 
> the GUI. (Yes, I've used P4V in a VNC session on KDE, but I don't want 
> to keep switching client applications.)
>
> Thanks,
> Mark Lokowich
> Systems Engineer
> Advanced Communication Design
> 7901 12th Ave. So.
> Bloomington, MN 55425
> 952-854-4000
> lokowich at acdstar.com
>
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