ACLs in Samba 2.2.0-alpha2

Gerald Carter gcarter at valinux.com
Thu Mar 15 18:10:10 GMT 2001


Jochen,

There are some bugs in the ACL implementation that we=20
have identified recently.  I'm forwarding this to Jeremy=20
so he has a copy of it as well.

Could you remind me again what server os your are using?
(specifics like version, kernel, etc... would be helpful).




Cheers, jerry

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Jochen Witte wrote:

>=20
> --On Donnerstag, M=E4rz 15, 2001 08:56:27 -0600 Gerald Carter
> <gcarter at valinux.com> wrote:
>=20
> > On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 05:22:32 Jochen Witte wrote:
> >>
> >> When I want to give a new user access-permissions on a file
> >> from a client-machine, I get a list with all UNIX-Users
> >> (e.g. lp, man, usenet, ...). That`s a little bit confusing
> >> for my users, and I want to stay user-friendly :)
> >>
> >> Is it possible to restrict this list to the users, which
> >> are also in my smbpasswd? Can I delete the machine-accounts
> >> from this list?
> >
> > Tim added a 'hide local users' parameter.  I don't remember the
> > exact samintics of what it does.  You can play with it.  It's in
> > the smb.conf man page in the latest SAMBA _2_2 cvs tree.
> > What you are describing is a known issue though and we are going to
> > address it.  Probably not in time for the 2.2.0 release though.
>=20
> Hi, me again.
>=20
> Following problem: editing user/group-acls under NT4 is possible
> without any problems. But under W2000 I=B4m just able to add/edit
> GROUP-permissions and to edit USER-permissions. When I want to ADD a
> USER I always get:
>=20
> "Error while searching for displayable usernames." (translated from
> German)
>=20
> On both the NT4 and the W2000 every user is displayed twice.
>=20
> What the hack does that mean?
>=20
> When I set log level =3D 2 the only error-message appearing is:
>=20
> [2001/03/15 17:32:50, 3]
> rpc_server/srv_lsa_hnd.c:close_lsa_policy_hnd(272)
>   Error closing policy
>=20
>=20
> Greetings ...
>=20
>=20
> --
> Jochen WItte
> <jwitte at meome-ag.de>
>=20

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