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

[Scott Dorsey]

David Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>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.

Correct, which you could have guessed.

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

Samba sees the VMS filesystem as a set of flat files, because it was 
originally ported from unix systems.  It sees the latest version of each
file.

It would be possible to change the Samba source so that it saw previous
versions and mapped them to different files on the client machine.  That is,
the vms side would see three versions of one file and the client would see
three files with different names.

This would probably not be a bad feature to request in the updated version of
samba when it comes along.
--scott



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