[Samba] Can new ACL entries be inherited to existing subdirectories.

Andrew Watkins andrew at dcs.bbk.ac.uk
Fri May 18 16:11:14 GMT 2007


As also, you got it dead right.

set "map acl inherit = yes"

Solaris does seem to support "extended attributes".

Thanks

Andrew

Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Andrew Watkins wrote:
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>> Hello,
>>
>> My samba drive works well on my XP machines and ACLs work fine as well.
>> XP users can add new user permissions to files and folders and they are
>> inherited for all NEW files and folders created in the future.
>>
>> But, adding a new permission on the security tab to a folder does not
>> alter the EXISTING files/sub-folders like it does on a real windows
>> network drive.
>>
>> I am running Samba 3.0.24/25 on Solaris 10/9 machines and here are my
>> current settings:
> 
> You need EA support on the file systems and to
> set "map acl inherit = yes"
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