Problem with GID being set to UID for Samba 2.2.2

Tue Nov 6 23:56:03 GMT 2001

Hi, 

Just downloaded the latest SAMBA, and (after a couple of "learning 
experiences" :-) it is sorta working on my home network.  A laptop with 
win95, and a server with RedHat 7.1 (Intel).

But there's this one little  problem, the GID for a recognised user is 
being set to an unknown group.  It looks like the GID is being set to be 
equal to the UID, or it is being set to the user's *original* GID (which 
samba has cached away somewhere). 

My user (pbabern) tries to access a share on the samba server- pbabern can 
read/write OK in a directory which is owned by pbabern, but cannot write 
in a directory that is *not* owned by pbabern, even though UNIX group 
permissions let pbabern write when I try the same write operation from the 
UNIX shell.
This is the situation:
      - directory /mnt/d is owned by uid=indulis, gid=user, has rwxrwxr-x 
permissions
      - user pbabern has primary group=user, but as a samba user cannot 
create anything in directory /mnt/d (permissions error), but *can* create 
a file in a directory owned by pbabern (but the file has the wrong gid).
      - user pbabern originally had a primary gid=501, but I deleted the 
group and made a new group 502 (user), and made this pbabern's primary 
group
      - when samba client pbabern creates a file in a directory where 
pbabern is the owner, the gid is set to 501 (=uid=original primary group)

I have smbd and nmbd both started from xinetd.conf, and refreshed xinetd 
after each change (just to be sure).

Is this a bug, or am I missing something? Does samba look anywhere outside 
of /etc/passwd and /etc/group to figure out what GID should be set for a 
specific UID?  Was GID=501 stored away somewhere inside samba the first 
time user pbabern accessed the share?

I have enclosed the relevant bits of traces etc below, where the trace 
shows smbd setting the gid to an invalid value of 501.  Other 
configuration stuff too...

Thanks!

Indulis

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... the output of ls showing a file "touched" by samba user pbabern (New 
Folder), and a file "touched" by
pbabern as a UNIX user (unix_touch).  where did gid=501 come from?!?!... 
it does not exist on my system-
 see /etc/group below taken at the same time as the problem!

total 3
drwxr-xr-x    2 pbabern  501          1024 Nov  4 18:05 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x    2 pbabern  501          1024 Nov  7 11:34 New Folder
drwxr-xr-x    2 pbabern  user         1024 Nov  7 11:40 smb_prob
-rw-r--r--    1 pbabern  user            0 Nov  7 11:42 unix_touch

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/etc/group

root:x:0:root
bin:x:1:root,bin,daemon
daemon:x:2:root,bin,daemon
sys:x:3:root,bin,adm
adm:x:4:root,adm,daemon
tty:x:5:
disk:x:6:root
lp:x:7:daemon,lp
mem:x:8:
kmem:x:9:
wheel:x:10:root
mail:x:12:mail
news:x:13:news
uucp:x:14:uucp
man:x:15:
games:x:20:
gopher:x:30:
dip:x:40:
ftp:x:50:
nobody:x:99:
users:x:100:
floppy:x:19:
nscd:x:28:
slocate:x:21:
utmp:x:22:
mailnull:x:47:
ident:x:98:
rpc:x:32:
rpcuser:x:29:
xfs:x:43:
gdm:x:42:
postgres:x:26:
apache:x:48:
named:x:25:
indulis:x:500:
user:x:502:indulis,pbabern
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/etc/passwd

root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin:
daemon:x:2:2:daemon:/sbin:
adm:x:3:4:adm:/var/adm:
lp:x:4:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:
sync:x:5:0:sync:/sbin:/bin/sync
shutdown:x:6:0:shutdown:/sbin:/sbin/shutdown
halt:x:7:0:halt:/sbin:/sbin/halt
mail:x:8:12:mail:/var/spool/mail:
news:x:9:13:news:/var/spool/news:
uucp:x:10:14:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:
operator:x:11:0:operator:/root:
games:x:12:100:games:/usr/games:
gopher:x:13:30:gopher:/usr/lib/gopher-data:
ftp:x:14:50:FTP User:/var/ftp:
nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:
nscd:x:28:28:NSCD Daemon:/:/bin/false
mailnull:x:47:47::/var/spool/mqueue:/dev/null
ident:x:98:98:pident user:/:/bin/false
rpc:x:32:32:Portmapper RPC user:/:/bin/false
rpcuser:x:29:29:RPC Service User:/var/lib/nfs:/bin/false
xfs:x:43:43:X Font Server:/etc/X11/fs:/bin/false
gdm:x:42:42::/home/gdm:/bin/bash
postgres:x:26:26:PostgreSQL Server:/var/lib/pgsql:/bin/bash
apache:x:48:48:Apache:/var/www:/bin/false
named:x:25:25:Named:/var/named:/bin/false
indulis:x:500:500:Indulis Bernsteins:/home/indulis:/bin/bash
pbabern:x:501:502::/home/pbabern:/bin/bash
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My very thick smb.conf file.

# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from batfink.21Chouse.com (127.0.0.1)
# Date: 2001/11/07 10:35:45

# Global parameters
[global]
        workgroup = TEST
        log level = 6

[pbabern]
        comment = %U home directory
        writeable = yes
        valid users = pbabern
        path = %H

[d]
        comment = batfink D drive
        valid users = pbabern
        writeable = yes
        path = /mnt/d
        read only = No

[e]
        comment = batfink E drive
        writeable = yes
        path = /mnt/e
        read only = No

[f]
        comment = batfink F drive
        writeable = yes
        path = /mnt/f
        read only = No

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