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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2017-07-21 kl. 05:41, skrev Craig A. Berry:
> 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> 
> 

But that is an file attribute, not part of the filename specification.
More like the link data in a VMS EXE file, than the VMS file version.

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