Preserving NTFS permissions.

[Christopher R. Hertel]

I'm working with someone who has a large-scale deployment using Samba 3 to
serve lots of Windows clients.  They're running into a small problem with
permission settings.

Basically, the default mappings that Samba performs in order to store
permissions (the stuff done in dosmode.c, mostly) is "changing" the bits
that the end-users are setting.  They'd like to more closely preserve the
NTFS permission settings.

It appears as though this is something that could be done using the VFS
layer.  In particular, I should be able to store the full NTFS ACE in an EA.
 Something I read suggests that Samba 4 is already doing this.

Does anyone have any experience setting this up under Samba 3?

Chris -)-----

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