Needs help with File Permissions on NT

[Sean Winn]

On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Sarabjit Singh wrote:

> Can someone please help
> 
> We are running samba 1.9 on Solaris 2.6 server and samba 2.0.4 on Solaris
> 7 server
> 
> On both the servers student access their home directories by NT
> workstations. In 1.9 version While accessing their home drives through NT
> explorer -> Properties they see file system as SAMBA and they only see
> 'General' tab so they can't change the permissions to their home
> directories.
> 
> In new version While accessing their home drives through NT explorer ->
> Properties they see file system as NTFS, and see two tabs 'General' and
> 'Security' and they can go to Security and mess up with the permission on
> their home directories. We have tried changing the file system by fstype =
> SAMBA . It does change the file system but security tab is still there in
> new version.
> 
> on Solaris they have 701 on their homedirs
> drwx-----x  on /home/myhomedir.
> 
> Can someone please help regrading it. We don't want student to change
> permission on their home directories so how to get rid of security tab in
> new version of samba.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 

Try adding this to [global]:

	nt acl support = no


It defaults to yes, and maps Unix permissions to NT ACLs.

> 
> 
> Sarabjit Singh
> 
> Sarabjit Singh
> Systems Programmer
> ITS, Curtin Business School
> Curtin University of Technology
> Kent St Bentley Perth WA
> Tel 61 8 9266 7529
> Fax 61 8 9266 3767
> 
> 

-- 
Sean Winn
email: sean at gothic.net.au
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