native posix permissions

[Jeremy Allison]

Claus Färber wrote:
> 
> Hallo.
> 
> I wonder if it's a good idea to add calls to the samba servers that
> would export _unix_ file permission read and write functions to clients.
> 
> These could for example be used by Win32 shell extensions to handle the
> native unix permissions directly, thus avoiding any strange effects (for
> the average user) introduced by the permission bit <-> acl mapping.
> 
> I wonder what would be the best and easiest strategy to implement that:
> ioctls or rpcs?

HP have already done this for the CIFS/9000 product.
It was done via new trans2 calls in the base SMB protocol
as specified by the UNIX-Extentions to CIFS document.

We should be integrating that code (thanks HP) shortly
(once we're out of printing hell :-) :-).

Cheers,

	Jeremy Allison,
	Samba Team.

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