[Samba] Files copying - date and owner... problems

Hi everyone,

Thank you for reading my post.

I have some data on a "Windows Server 2003" machine I put there
temporarily (quite a big amount of data: 44.8 GB).

I have copied them back on my Samba server (Debian Lenny hosts the server).

I have had two different types of problems:

1) Date problem:
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some very "old" files which I hadn't touched for an eternity (or so )
have had their date changed to say 2009/10/07 (7th of October 2009, the
day I copied the data from the Windows to the Lenny server)
which is not normal and which is very problematic.
For example:
- on the Windows server, there is a file <foo.ext> which date is
2007/06/04
- on the Samba server, after copying it, its date is 2009/10/07.
(I am talking about the "Date Modified" as it is named on Windows
machines).

2) Owner and owner group problem:
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I was logged as <user1> on the Windows 2003 server.
<user1> is a Samba user (declared on the Samba server,
member of the "/etc/samba/smbpasswd" file).
So, if I understood well the meaning of the Samba config. file:
normally when a file is copied on the server, its owner is <user1>
and its owner group is "domadm".
Some files have had their owner and owner group set to "root" preventing
as a result <user1> to write them.

Here is my "/etc/samba/smb.conf" config. file to check what I said
before:


----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[global]
workgroup = <workgroup_name>
server string = %h Samba server
log level = 1
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 1000
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY
logon path =
logon home =
domain logons = Yes
os level = 128
preferred master = Yes
domain master = Yes
remote browse sync = yes

[<share_name>]
comment = <share_name>
path = /<share_path>/<share_name>
force group = domadm
read only = No
create mask = 0664
directory mask = 0775
guest ok = Yes

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Can you tell me if I misconfigured something?
If I should add someting to my config. file to avoid such problems?
Do you think what happened was a Samba server malfunctioning?

Thank you for your help and all the best,
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Hi again,

I am sorry to come back here with my problem but
I didn't get any response to my previous post...
Maybe my post wasn't clear enough or too long?

It is "just" that, when copying files at date D and time T
from Windows server to Samba server, SOME files times
(not all of them) have been set to time T and date D.
Which is abnormal isn't it?

I also had SOME files (not all of them) which owner and
owner group were set to (root, root) instead of
(current_win_smb_logged_user, forced_smb_conf_group).

Do you think this is because a large amount of files
were copied? I mean, if this is a Samba bug, isn't it worth
reporting it?
Do you think I should add something to my config. file?

If you cannot answer don't worry I won't post again with
this topic, I am just trying so see if there is someone around
who would have a little idea...

Thanks for reading and all the best,
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