[Samba] Request for ACL experiences

[Ben Tullis]

Hello all
I have had some dubious experiences using the ACL features of Samba 3.0.0

At present I have rolled-back our production servers to 2.2.8a 
(--with-acl ) but I hope that they will be ironed-out by 3.0.1 and I can 
upgrade again.

The problems manifested themselves in two client applications, CVS and 
Quickbooks althouth there was only 24'ish hours of live use before the 
decision was made to roll-back.

The CVS problem went thus.

CVS repositories held on an ext3+acl partition, access by samba with 
"force-user=someuser" and "valid users=@somegroup"
CVS working directories held on [homes] share

When performing a "cvs edit" or "cvs unedit" the permissions of the 
files were not being set to read-only correctly. It was possible to set 
these permissions using the standard Windows file property dialogs.

Since much of our work uses CVS intensively, this would not do. This 
behaviour ocurred whether or not oplocks were employed.

The Quickbooks problem was nasty but I think I could have got around it 
with options.

The kernel is 2.4.21 +ea+acl The shares are exported via patched NFS for 
version 3 NFS clients only.

2.2.8a has plenty of quirks with ACL's enabled but I won't go into those 
now.


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Ben Tullis
IT Manager