[Samba] Re: chown failure on a samba share

[Volker Lendecke]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 09:41:58PM -0500, Shirish Pargaonkar wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Shirish Pargaonkar
> <shirishpargaonkar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is this working as designed or a samba bug?
> >
> > I am trying to chown ownership of a file in a samba share and it
> > results in an error.
> >
> > cifstest6:~ # smbclient //cifstest8/smb8 -U root
> > Enter root's password:
> > Domain=[CIFSTEST8] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.0-GIT-e6a5f11-devel]
> > smb: \> chown 65534 65534 file2
> > NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED chown file \file2 uid=65534, gid=65534
> >
> > The share is thus exported
> >
> > [smb88]
> >        path =  /tmp/cifstest88
> >        browseable = Yes
> >        read only = No
> >        guest ok = Yes
> >        writable = yes
> >        printable = yes
> >
> > ls -l /tmp/cifstest8/file2
> > -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 10 10:47 /tmp/cifstest8/file2
> >
> >
> > [2009/03/10 11:40:24,  3] smbd/trans2.c:6831(call_trans2setfilepathinfo)
> >  call_trans2setfilepathinfo(6) file2 (fnum -1) info_level=512 totdata=100
> > [2009/03/10 11:40:24, 10] smbd/trans2.c:6069(smb_set_file_unix_basic)
> >  smb_set_file_unix_basic: SMB_SET_FILE_UNIX_BASIC: name = file2 size
> > = 0, uid = 65534, gid = 65533, raw perms = 037777777777
> > [2009/03/10 11:40:24, 10] smbd/trans2.c:6129(smb_set_file_unix_basic)
> >  smb_set_file_unix_basic: SMB_SET_FILE_UNIX_BASIC changing owner
> > 65534 for path file2
> > [2009/03/10 11:40:24,  3] smbd/error.c:60(error_packet_set)
> >  error packet at smbd/trans2.c(7087) cmd=50 (SMBtrans2) NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED

Just tried with current master: Works fine for me. Can you
post an strace of smbd trying to do this?

Volker
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