[Info-vax] Is there a way to enabling versioning in Samba

Craig A. Berry craigberry at nospam.mac.com
Thu Jul 20 23:41:16 EDT 2017


On 7/20/17 10:31 PM, David Froble wrote:
> don.zong at gmail.com wrote:
>> My impression with Samba is that the file is always overridden, no 
>> versioning. revision number might change though. Wondering if there is 
>> a way to enable versioning in Samba - so that whenever there is a 
>> change in the file, it will create a new file with a new version.
> 
> My impression is that you're asking the wrong question.
> 
> When using Samba, you're accessing files on a VMS system from an OS that 
> doesn't have versioning in it's file system.  

How do you know that? Wouldn't he likely be using Windows, which does
have file versions? See, for example:

<https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms646981(v=vs.85).aspx>

Dunno if it's in SMB, much less Samba.



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