[Samba] Problems with Unix Permissions and ACLs

Greg Folkert greg at gregfolkert.net
Thu Jul 29 02:11:31 GMT 2004


On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 22:53, Adam Luchjenbroers wrote:
> System is RHEL3 with Samba 3.0.0.
> 
> I have a share that is configured to be accessible only to a specific group
> (Test Admin).
> 
> [delta]
> comment = Testing
> path = /var/test
> valid users = @"TEST/App - Test Admin"
> admin users = @"TEST/App - Test Admin"
> writable = yes

Do you have ACL support in the Kernel?
Are you using a filesystem that supports ACLs?
Have you enabled ACLs on the machine in global? You didn't in the share.
Do you have Winbind properly config'd?

> Via the NT security dialog, file permissions are mapping fine but all
> directories have empty ACLs (no permissions for any). File permissions in
> question have been checked.
> 
> Despite this lack of permissions, directories can be entered and browsed,
> however files cannot be created. In addition, no file may be written to,
> though reading works fine.

guest access is probably what you are seeing.
-- 
greg, greg at gregfolkert.net

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