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

[David Froble]

Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Den 2017-07-21 kl. 15:25, skrev 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?
> 
> It is definitely not, as I explained in another post. It is more like
> pulling an "old version" from a BACKUP save set. And you must specify
> an alternative directory, if you do not want your current file to be
> (permanently) over written.
> 
> 

Yes, I saw your posts, and it seems clear that from a standard weendoze utility, 
such as Windows Explorer, versions cannot be seen, or specified.  To me, that 
means weendoze does not support file versions, at least in the filespec.

Getting back to Samba, even if it somehow supported file versions, there is no 
way to specify them from normal weendoze utilities.