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From: geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: rm files over PC-NFS
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Date: 1 Mar 91 13:56:38 GMT
References: <1991Feb28.214943.7206@mks.com>
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Quoth andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) (in <1991Feb28.214943.7206@mks.com>):
#Is it possible for a user to remove read-only files over PC-NFS that are
#owned by someone else and are in a directory which is writable by this
#user?  I am having problems doing this even though I can do it directly
#on the NFS server.

If by "remove" you mean use the DOS "DEL" or similar command, or the
equivalent DOS system call, the answer is no. DOS will not allow you to
delete any file which is marked as read-only.  Try it on your local DOS
disk. PC-NFS simply preserves DOS semantics on NFS mounted drives. (The
fact that the directory is writeable is irrelevant: DOS doesn't grok
permissions on directories anyway.)

Geoff

-- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM)   --
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