[Samba] NT Security tab changes

Gerald Carter jerry at samba.org
Mon Oct 7 15:05:21 GMT 2002


On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> Jules Agee wrote:
> > 
> > Do I need to patch ACL support into the Linux kernel just to allow users
> > to change permissions on files hosted on the Samba 2.2.5 server? All I
> > really need is to allow users to set read/write/execute on files. Right
> > now, I don't have an ACL-patched kernel installed on the server.
> 
> This stuff should work.  We have to translate the permissions back into
> posix rwx, but as long as the changes fit that, and the user can do it
> at the console, then it *should* work...
> 
> You might want to try Samba 3.0, see if it's any better there.  This may
> well be a bug.  (Not that I'm particularly in a position to chase it
> down, unfortunetly)

no need to try 3.0 for this.   Samba 2.2.5 should be fine in this respect.  




cheers, jerry
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