[p4] Permissions across Samba share

[Ivey, William]

On our system, the default permissions for samba always set
the user execute bit. That solves one problem, but introduces
its opposite: plain text files that look executable.

There doesn't seem to be a good way to get it right via
Samba.

-Wm

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Vance
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 6:59 PM
To: lokowich
Cc: perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: Re: [p4] Permissions across Samba share

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
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