Security Identifier (SID) to User Identifier (uid) ResolutionSyste

[Claus Färber]

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at samba.org> schrieb/wrote:
> claus, this is so that native NT file access is validated against what is
> ultimately unix file permissions,

But the file access is validated by the file system SAMBA accesses, not  
the NT machine.

The translation is only necessary for NT tools that show and manipulate  
NT ACLs to be able to handle SAMBA shares.

> not the other way round: management of unix file permissions carried
> out from a custom progaram written for and used on windows.

For some setups, this solution may be better.

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Claus Andre Faerber <http://www.faerber.muc.de>
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