Samba permissions and subgroups

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Thu Aug 13 15:49:20 MDT 2009


On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:28:20AM -0500, Ron Short wrote:
> Problem Description:  samba & sgi_samba are loaded and smd running and
> operational so users can login, copy files both direction. 
>
> However Sony has an issue with subgroups and that information does not
> look to be forwarded to Windows Samba Clients. Basically their
> DVD-cutting application runs with some higher privilege level of
> permission above the normal user rights. They can't get the permission
> through the subgroups thus the application breaks.
>
> This is installed on a SGI XE system running SLES 10 SP2 SGI's ProPack 6SP3 and SGI's version of Samba
>
> sgi-samba-winbind-3.2.0-24.1sgi160r2
> sgi-samba-3.2.0-24.1sgi160r2
> sgi-samba-client-3.2.0-24.1sgi160r2

Ron, can you log a bug please with much more
detail than this (log files etc.) so we can
work out exactly what this 

"runs with some higher privilege level of
permission above the normal user rights. They can't get the permission
through the subgroups thus the application breaks."

actually means.

Thanks,

Jeremy.


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