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

[Craig A. Berry]

On 7/21/17 3:56 AM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> 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.

Yes, sorry, that link isn't to the feature I was thinking of. I think
it's called file history or something. In any case, recent releases of
Windows do have a sort of file versioning. The semantics are likely a
lot different (I've never used it) but there are certainly ways of
maintaining multiple versions of files.

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