The network name cannot be found - addition

[Richard Sharpe]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, dsrc wrote:

dscr, whose email does not work, complains of problems accessing a share:


>   Apparently, the share inherits the ownership and access rights of its 
> parent directory (possibly all the way up to the parent directory, just 
> off the root).   This is my setup:
> 
> Samba verion 3.0a20 running on FreeBSD v4.8
> 
> Directory "/raid" contains the subdirectory that I want to share.
> Permissions for "/raid" = "774"
> Owner:Group = "root:wheel"

Ah-ha. Samba tries to chdir to the root of the share. Without O:X, no one 
but root and members of wheel can do that.

Solution: chmod o:x /raid

> Want to share directory:
> 	 "/raid/download"
> 
> Permissions for /raid/download = "775"
> Owner:Group = "root:staff"
> 
>  From the file "/etc/group":
> staff:*:20:root,jeff,pete,lawonda,jewels,latisha
> 
> Parts of the file "/usr/local/etc/smb.conf":
> ************************	
> 	[Global]
> 	...
> 	encrypt passwords = yes
> 	security = user
> 	...
> 	[download]
> 	path = /raid/download
> 	public = no
> 	printable = no
> 	guest ok = no
> 	writeable = yes
> 	write list = @staff
> 	...
> *************************
> Those who are only members of the group "staff" are denied access to the 
> share "download".   My guess is that for the shared directory, Samba is 
> having the share inherit the group ownership rigts of the parent 
> directory of "/raid/download" which is "/raid" with owner "root:wheel". 
>    The group "staff" does not own it so can only see it because of the 
> rights "774" assigned to the "/raid" directory.  Interesting was that 
> when using an account that is member of wheel I could browse through 
> share and subdirectories just fine.  This is what led me to conclusion 
> about share inheritting rights of parent directory.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Mark B
> damthespam[at]yahoo[dot]com
> 

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Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
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