[Samba] Permissions issue on domain member server (samba as an appliance)

[Greg Dickie]

Hey Rowland,

Hmmm. I may have misunderstood. I don't believe it explicitly said to do
that but I took it as that. Should I create a local Administrator account
instead?

Thanks,
Greg

On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 3:30 PM Rowland Penny <rpenny at samba.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 15:07:56 -0400
> Greg Dickie via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >   We have a rat's nest of windows servers all sharing little bits of
> > storage which I'm trying to consolidate on one biggish linux server.
> > I've install a fresh Ubuntu 22.04 and samba 4.15 that comes standard.
> > I've also joined the domain using autorid as the backend and users
> > are getting UID and GIDs correctly as evidenced by wbinfo -i USER and
> > id USER. I've also mapped a domain admin user to root using username
> > map and the connection shows up as root in smbstatus.
>
> Could you please point out where it says to map a domain admin to root
> instead of mapping Administrator to root ?
>
> Rowland
>
> > Created a
> > share, changed the group of the directory to "Domain Admins" and did
> > a g+rwx on the share root dir. Everything looks good.
> >
> > But. When I connect to the share as that admin user and try a mkdir
> > tt I get access denied. robocopy from one of the windows servers give
> > me "A required privilege is not help by the client".
> >
> > Level 10 logs are pretty verbose but I did not see a cause.
> >
> > What am I missing? Where should I look next?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Greg
> >
>
>

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