[Samba] Another Samba+ACLs thread

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Andrew Furey wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having trouble making Samba recognise ACLs properly - a W2k client 
> isn't using them fully.
> 
> I have patched the kernel, recompiled Samba, etc. I've gotten it working 
>   to the point where the kernel-side of things seems to work fine (with 
> getfacl, etc). Also, the W2k machine (via Samba) can see the ACL 
> settings that are applied to a file.
> 
> The problem arises when I try to change them from W2k. It silently fails 
> (from 2k's point of view), but in the log files I see something like 
> "unable to map SID [blah] to uid or gid". All my Googling simply 
> suggests that ACLs are not installed at all, which appears to be false...

Is the win2k user the owner (in the unix sense) of the file. ?

Even though you have ACL's only the owner or root can actually change them.

Yours Tony

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