"Access denied" when non-admin tries to create a file on a share

[Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer]

Hi Philip,

probably it is exactly this issue which you are facing: 
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8987
If you have a bugzilla account feel free to CC yourself.

Matthias Wallnöfer

Philip M. White schrieb:
> Hello;
>
> I am running Samba4 alpha22 on Gentoo Linux.  Recently I did two 
> things: I upgraded Samba4 from alpha15 to alpha22 (as a clean install, 
> then copied the 'private' directory into it, etc.), and I rebuilt the 
> filesystems to be on software RAID.
>
> I have multiple shares created with Samba.  They all used to work 
> perfectly, but now when a non-administrator tries to create a file, 
> the Windows client tells him, "Access denied."  However, the user is 
> able to *change* any existing file, and delete files.
>
> I don't see any relevant log entry in Samba's logs, with loglevel set 
> to 3.  The "Security" tab (and cacls.exe) shows that everything is 
> kosher.  I give the user "Full control", but he still cannot create 
> new files.
>
> To help debug this, I created a brand-new ext4 filesystem on the 
> server, mounted it with user_xattrs,acl, shared it with Samba4, and as 
> the domain administrator allowed a non-administrator full access.  
> That non-administrator is still unable to create new files.  So now I 
> am at a loss.
>
> Please advise.
>