[Samba] Problem with Samba 2.2.4 & XP/2000 ?

[Marcel J.E. Mol]

On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 05:07:45PM +0200, Marcel J.E. Mol wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 09:52:14AM -0500, Gerald Carter wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 May 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Someone mentioned to me that there were known issues with v2.2.4 and
> > > XP/2000 ... I've searched the archives, and can't find anything that looks
> > > pertinent ...
> > 
> > None that I know.
> > 
> > > specifically, users appear to be able to connect to shares no problem,
> > > read files from them, but not write back to them altho permissions and
> > > ownership on the files looks correct ...
> > 
> > This is news to me.  Did I miss something?
> 
> Hm I  remember having this sort of problems a couple of weeks ago on
> an samba 2.2.3a server and XP clients.
> THe users complained that they coyuld not read the files although
> permissions were ok. I could not investigate at that point and
> suggested that the copied the whole 'folder' to a new 'folder'. 
> In the new folder the could happly update the files...
> (but I still did not check what was wronf in the first place.)

Oh, forget it...
Just did a check on that system. I *thought*  the permissions were right.
But although all files and directories were user and group writable, everything
was owned by root.root...

-Marcel
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