[Samba] admin user

[Judy Lin]

Mike,
  User1 wants to have root privileges so that he can install software on
the local Win2k machine.  That is the reason he was granted administrative
privileges.  Here is my problem.  He uses both a Mac and a PC.  User1 on a
PC (following samba's admin specifications) will create a file on MSword,
and save it in his share folder(which is owned by User1) and the owner of
that file will root (not User1).
When he goes on the Mac to edit the file he created in his share on a PC,
he doesn't have administrative privileges (because the Mac doesn't use
samba's specifications).  So when he tries to edit his own file that he
created on a PC, he will get the error that he doesn't have sufficient
privileges because the owner of that file is set as root (not User1).  Is
there a way to set samba so that even though User1 is specified to be an
admin user, any files that he creates will still be owned by User1 and not
root?

Judy

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 mkraus at capitalholdings.com.au wrote:

> G'day Judy,
>
> Samba is acting as instructed here. When you set a user as administrator
> via smb.conf they have root priveleges, and have file access as such.
>
> Set up user and group permissions appropriate on the shared directory
> (under *nix) and remove the admin line in smb.conf file to grant more
> explecit control.
>
> Samba follows the user and group permissions on files and directories as
> already set on the *nix filesystem. Does that make sense to you? (Let me
> know if not.)
>
> All the best...
>
> Mike
> ---
> Michael S. E. Kraus
> Administration
> Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd
> mkraus at capitalholdings.com.au
> phone (02) 9955 8000 fax (02) 9955 8144
>
>
>
>
> Judy Lin <jyclin at hydra.acs.uci.edu>
> Sent by: samba-admin at lists.samba.org
> 19/11/2002 12:24 PM
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>
> Hello.
>   I am running samba 2.2.5 on Redhat 7.3.  I wanted to give a user1
> administrative privileges, so in smb.conf, under [global], admin users =
> user1.  When user1 is on a PC and creates a file in MSWord and saves it in
> his directory, the default permissions aren't preserved for user1.
> Instead, the owner of that file becomes root.  Is there any way I can set
> samba so that the owner of the file is preserved as user1?  (Also, the
> group that user1 is in isn't preserved in the file permissions either).
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Judy Lin
>
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