[ILUG] Samba Query

[Rob Gallagher]

Sounds like he is talking about VMS.

I dont think such a feature exists in samba, it would be more a function
of the filesystem/os rather than any particular application.

rg

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 10:38 +0000, Dale Dunlea wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> We use Samba as our domain controller. Someone recently did something 
> silly, and accidentally dragged an entire directory into another 
> directory without noticing, thus "losing" it. He claims that he has 
> worked on systems in the past which allowed creation and modification of 
> a file, but not deletion. Now, to me this sounds a little silly. If you 
> can modify a file, then you can truncate it to zero bytes, making 
> inability to delete somewhat of a moot point. Nonetheless, I suppose it 
> would make it harder for people to do stupid things.
> 
> Does such a feature exist in Samba, and if not, can someone at least 
> tell me it doesn't exist in windows either such that I can refute his claim.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Dale.
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