[Samba] Change permissions as administrator

[steve]

On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 12:37 +0200, Andrés Domínguez wrote:
> 2014-04-28 11:01 GMT+02:00 steve <steve at steve-ss.com>:
> 
> > On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 10:37 +0200, Andrés Domínguez wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > I have being trying to resolve this problem for another week without
> > > success.
> > > Is the 'SeDiskOperatorPrivilege' what allows a user/group to change
> > > permissions? What does the privilage otherwise?
> > >
> > > This is a production server, so it is an annoying issue. I don't like
> > > changing
> > > the file owner to be able to change permissions by 'Administrator'.
> > >
> > > Any help is highly appreciated.
> >
> > Hi
> > Is Administrator recognised by getent or id?
> >
> 
> Yes, both 'wbinfo -u' and 'getent passwd' resolve administrator.
> 
> Why not make Administrator an admin user?
> > admin user = DOMAIN\Administrator
> >
> 
> It seems that this works. I thought that  'SeDiskOperatorPrivilege' was
> enough to change permissions. What 'SeDiskOperatorPrivilege' means
> then?
You only need it if you're pointing and clicking from a windows machine.
We think. 
> 
> Or simply use setfacl to give Administrator rw on the share(s)
> >
> 
> Administrator had rwx and was owner of the share's root directory.
> 
Can you post:
smb.conf
getfacl /path/to/that/share
and
/etc/fstab

> Although I don't fully understand what's going on it's now working. Thank
> you very much.
> 
Well done.

Another way you may want to consider is to map Administrator to say,
root on the file server.
Cheers,
Steve