[Samba] viewing, if not editing, NFSv4 ACL's from Samba shares

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Tue Apr 20 05:50:32 MDT 2010


On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 07:45:00AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> I'm involved in a project to enforce NFSv4 ACL's across a variety of
> storage platforms, in particular NetApps sharing NFS. That works fiine
> with the NetApp NFS qtrees, but we'd like to share those with CIFS
> clients as well. This works, and restricts access the way we expect
> NFSv4 ACL's to work, but the Windows clients cannot view any of the
> security settings on the directories or files.

The NetApp CIFS server should allow that, doesn't it?

> Cue the music, and enter Samba 3.5.2. I've reviewed various public
> notes on how to use NFSv4 ACL's on recent Samba (particularly those at
> http://www.sambaxp.org/files/SambaXP2009-DATA/Nils_Goroll.pdf), and
> installed Samba 3.5.2 on test servers. And I've set up shares with the
> following settings.
> 
> [share]
> acl check permissions = False
> ea support = yes
> store dos attributes = yes
> map readonly = no
> map archive = no
> map system = no
> vfs objects = zfsacl

What platform is your Samba server running on? Is this
Solaris?

Volker


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