Thunar and chmod

[Todd and Margo Chester]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Todd and Margo Chester wrote:
>> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>>> Just curious: Why would one want to set permissions of a file/directory
>>> to 766?
>> When administering a samba server, if you have
>>
>>     map archive = yes
>>     map system = yes
>>     map hidden = yes
>>
>> set in your smb.conf, you map the Windows attributes
>> to following chmod octets:
>>
>>      archive 0100
>>      system  0010
>>      hidden  0001
>>
>> "chmod 766" tells windows the file is "archive",
>> "not system" and "not hidden".  It also allows
>> you to use the files in Linux, depending on what you
>> set smb.conf's "force user" and "force group" to.
> 
> Aye, well that's not what Thunar is meant to do. 

hmmmmm.  Thunar is not a file manager?  Even Windows XP's
"Explorer" can set attributes.


> It's a really special
> task (for a file manager meant to be used by people who do not care for
> bits in inodes). But you can of course add a custom action that does the
> "chmod 766".

I did not know that. How do I do that?

> 
>> -T
> 
> HTH,
> Benedikt
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