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

[David Froble]

Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 

I don't think so.  It would be one way, for starters.  No way to create a new 
version on VMS with the same name as the prior version, since the name would not 
be the same on other systems.  And for what purpose?  Users on other OSs would 
just get confused.

Yes, anything can be done.  Prudent, that's another issue.