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Samba changing Time Stamp

Running SUSE 9.1, Samba 3, Windows XP Home Workstation.

I store my documents on a Samba 3.0 server and access them with my windows xp home workstations. Problem is the time stamp on all my files have changed to the present time. This seems to have happened when I recently moved files between windows and Samba. I do not seem to be able to stop this happening. I have to confess I have experimented with security settings in the past. Like CHMOD and rw access etc however I don't know how to solve the problem without making it worse.
Does anybody have any tips to stop Samba changing all my dates and times to the present time?????

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Thanks but I don't understand.. I have copied files from one hard disk to another and all files have had their times and dates re-stamped. How can this be a good thing? Because I have files with the same name in different directories I can no longer find out which ones are up to date and which ones are old files. Is there any way to get the last modified dates back? Thanks

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Thanks I'm getting the picture I think? I did a copy between 2 physical hard disks suse to suse using
cp -R command.
I wonder is it possible that it may also have something to do with the fact that I changed the system and hardware clock while once playing about with webmin?
Thanks again, Richard

Arty K

'cp -pR' preserves time.

What about your current system clock, you may adjust it with any public ntp server: 'ntpdate 212.122.1.2'. You only need to setup appropriate timezone.

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