Tar problem

["Mark Thompson" <mthompson ed umuc edu>]

I have brought up a Redhat 6.1 server with all of the lastest patches.  I am trying to migrate samba
users from the one machine to the other.  I am able to move all of the user accounts with no
problems using

tar xvpf

which preserves the permissions.  When I try to move the shared directory on the same partition to
the new server, the permissions for the directories are not being kept.

    I have extracted both the user accounts and the share directory into the same directory on the
new server with the same results.  The owner/group and permissions for the user accounts are
transferred, but the owner/group and permissions for the shared directories don't keep the same
permissions.  The kicker is that regular files from the shared directory come over fine.  Has anyone
seen this kind of behavior in tar before?

Mark Thompson