I fear this is more a Windows question than a perl question, but maybe someone can still help me...

My app runs on Windows and creates files on a netdrive, which is actually a Samba share on a Unix system. To make working with Samba easy, the Windows user name and the Unix user name are identical; no password authentification is needed.

When I log into the Unix account to look at the files created in that way, they have permission 0600. If my app explicitly does a chmod 0666, the permissions as seen from the Unix side are still 0600 (but chmod returns "1", signalling that the permissions have been changed in the correct way). Not being very proficient on Windows, my wild guess is that the Perl on Windows doesn't know anything about Unix permissions.

Is there any chance that I can set the permissions on that file, or do I simply have to accept that this can't be done?

-- 
Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>

In reply to chmod in Windows on Samba Drive: Can this be done at all? by rovf

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