Problem preserving timestamps on files- Winscp?


Subject: Problem preserving timestamps on files- Winscp?
From: Jim Dory (jdory@gci.net)
Date: Mon Sep 30 2002 - 09:23:11 AKDT


I was thinking this was a samba problem but maybe it is a permissions or
similar problem. I installed Winscp on my Win2k machine and can copy
files with it to some unaffected directories, ones that retain the
file's date of last modification. But the directories that are affected,
the ones where using Windows Explorer to copy files into and where the
date is modified to the current date, I can't even copy files to using
Winscp. I get a "set mode: operation not permitted".

I did a google search on that error and the Winscp faq states:
    While copying files such as this, you need to turn off "Set
permissions" and "Preserve timestamp" options in copy
confirmation dialog

<http://winscp.vse.cz/eng/screenshots/large/copy.gif>So that is giving
me a good clue. So I think I've screwed up the permissions on the Samba
share. Can someone tell me how to troubleshoot permissions.. I want to
be able to allow a group to read and write the files (I don't know about
execute, really, what that means to a non-program-type file) and I
suppose the owner. And others shouldn't be able to read or browse them.

The permissions look the same on problem and non-problem directories.
basically rwxrwx... .but maybe there's a sticky bit or something? I'm
stumped.

Cheers, JD

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