Windows displays incorrect ACE Trustee Names when displaying ACEs for Samba server in an ADS parent/child forest?

Richard Sharpe realrichardsharpe at gmail.com
Thu Jun 30 15:23:10 MDT 2011


On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Richard Sharpe
<realrichardsharpe at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Richard Sharpe
> <realrichardsharpe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have noticed an interesting problem in an ADS forest where I have:
>>
>> 1. rjstest.local as the root of the forest (domain is DIFFNAME),
>> 2. subtree1.rjstest.local as a subtree that is part of rjstest.local
>> (domain is SUBTREE1),
>> 3. A Samba 2.5.8+ member server that is joined to subtree1.rjstest.local,
>> 4. A share on my Samba server called FunnyShare where
>> SUBTREE1\administrator has full access and the group DIFFNAME\domain
>> admins also has full access.
>>
>> When I bring up the share properties on a Windows server, it shows the
>> trustee that is the SID for DIFFNAME\domain admins as SUBTREE1\Domain
>> Admins.
>>
>> In looking over a capture of the Trans2, NT QUERY SECURITY DESCRIPTOR
>> the correct SIDs are being returned. The only interesting thing I can
>> find is that there is a DsGetRolePrimaryDomainInformation request
>> prior to the NT QUERY SECURITY DESCRIPTOR that is also directed at the
>> member server which has what looks like wrong info:
>>
>> DNS Domain: subtree1.rjstest.local
>> Forest:            subtree1.rjstest.local
>>
>> The second value looks wrong and should be rjstest.local, IMO.
>>
>> In looking at rpc_server/srv_dssetup_nt.c, I find this:
>>
>>        if (lp_security() == SEC_ADS) {
>>                dnsdomain = talloc_strdup(ctx, lp_realm());
>>                if (!dnsdomain) {
>>                        return WERR_NOMEM;
>>                }
>>                strlower_m(dnsdomain);
>>                basic->dns_domain = dnsdomain;
>>
>>                /* FIXME!! We really should fill in the correct forest
>>                   name.  Should get this information from winbindd.  */
>>                basic->forest = dnsdomain;
>>
>> Is it possible that this incorrect information is confusing Windows?
>> It sure will confuse users, and I wonder if the correct SIDs will be
>> set if we try to add ACEs from different domains via Windows.
>>
>> At the moment it is not clear if we are keeping the forest anywhere, either ...
>>
>> Comments would be useful. Am I barking up the wrong tree?
>
> Well, a quick rebuild demonstrates that this problem has nothing to do
> with DsRoleGetPrimaryDomainInfomation, it seems. I hard coded the
> correct info, but nothing has changed.

Verified that the same problem does not occur on a Win2K08 member
server ... digging deeper now.

-- 
Regards,
Richard Sharpe


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