Permission Problems between Samba, NT and 95

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, John E. Jurgess wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> We are currently running samba version 1.9.17p2 on 4 Sun Solaris servers.  The 
> problem we are having is that permission problems are not being followed across 
> file systems.  The properties are owner nobody, group nobody.  We have to keep 
> changing the properties.  Is there an easy fix to the problem?

dear john,

you have not sent in your smb.conf file, so i can only presume that you 
may be using samba 1.9.17p2 in "security = share" mode (the default); 
"guest ok = yes" (the default) and "guest account = nobody" (the default).

this will result in files being created under the guest account (nobody).

you might want to have a look at the "security = user" mode.  if this 
turns out not to be the issue, please send either myself or the list your 
smb.conf file (change any ip addresses in it first) and we'll be able to 
comment further.
 
best regards,

luke

<a href="mailto:lkcl at switchboard.net"  > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton  </a>
<a href="http://mailhost.cb1.com/~lkcl"> Samba Consultancy and Support </a>