Re: problem setting user and group on mounting a cifs share

[Chris <list.hurschler@gmx.de>]

On Tuesday 29 April 2008, Mark Clarkson wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 21:16 +0200, Chris wrote:
> > still does not work as expected.  It does copy all the files in the
> > source
> > directory tree on running the first time.  When run a second time it
> > copies
> > some, but not all files that were archived the first time, although
> > these
> > files have not been touched since.  This is a no-go on a
> > multi-gigabyte file
> > tree where huge amounts of data are unecessarily transfered.  Sigh.
>
> Are you sure it actually copied the files or did it just try changing
> permissions and such? Maybe run it again and look at the actual number
> of bytes transferred rather than the number of files it seemed to
> transfer.
>
> How about choosing options explicitly, i.e. don't use -a, so don't set
> permissions on files etc. I assume you're mounting M$ W***ws drive on
> linux machines so permissions are duff anyway.

it only works with -ruv but not with -t.  The time stamp is somehow not in the 
cards.  Thus the files on the target all have the copy date.  Not nice.

C

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C. Hurschler