Can someone explain how samba handles permissions?

[Tim Winders]

To properly do this test in a Windows environment, you must use a
WindowsNT server with NTFS permissions.  Set the Share Permissions to Full
Control.  Set the directory permissions to Full Control.  Change the file
permissions to Read Only for Everyone and Full Control for that user.
With this setup, only that user will be able to delete the file.  I
suspect your test is not done on an NTFS partition.  The behavior you are
seeing on Samba is what I would expect.

Unfortunately, you cannot change the file permissions from a Windows Box.
You must do it on the Unix box for Samba.  Hopefully, one day this will be
changed...

On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Mike Langas wrote:

> Can someone explain the following behavior.  I don't understand
> windows permissions very well, so I'm not sure if the following is a
> problem or considered normal.
> 
> I have a directory called sigmaproj on my samba server; ls -la gives
> the following information:
> 14 drwxrwxrwx  31 bkelly  users         6656 Sep 17 16:12 sigmaproj
> 
> in this directory is a file:
>   2 -rw-r--r--   1 dvorak users         253 Jul  3 17:57 sigma.log
> 
> As I understand it, any user should be able to delete the file sigma.log
> 
> via a samba connection.  The Unix file system should allow the file to
> be
> deleted because all users have write privileges on the sigmaproj
> directory.
> 
> If I understand windows permissions correctly, I believe I should also
> be
> able to delete the file after clicking the OK button on a warning dialog
> box.
> I find however, that samba users other than bkelly can not delete the
> file sigma.log.
> 
> I wanted to verify that windows would allow such a delete, so I set up a
> similar test
> in a windows to windows environment.  As I suspected, I was able to
> delete
> the file after I confirmed my intentions on a dialog box.
> 
> If windows allows the delete and unix allows the delete, why doesn't
> samba?
> Do I have something configured incorrectly?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Mike Langas
> 
> 
> 

=== Tim

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