Re: chmod in Windows on Samba Drive: Can this be done at all?

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Hi ,

AFAIR, neither chmod(1) or chown(1) work over a network - the command has to be issued at the server end in order for them to be updated as you'd expect.

HTH ,

A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))

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Re^2: chmod in Windows on Samba Drive: Can this be done at all? by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 01, 2008 at 10:37 UTC
They don't even work locally, because Windows has a far finer grained-yet-different concept of file permissions than chmod. The only way to change the mode on the Unix side of things is to configure Samba to use a different umask or to issue the command remotely.	[reply]

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