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

[David Froble]

Craig A. Berry wrote:
> 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.

Interesting reading.  However, while some capability may potentially be there, I 
sure don't see multiple versions of a file in Windows Explorer.  Didn't read all 
of the info, but, I'm not sure it's the same as VMS file versions?