[Samba] Change Group/Permission problem

[jsz at rdslink.ro]

Hello,

I'm replying to my own mail ;)

I solved the problem in a different way. It seems to be using acls is the
only solution. This is not that really what i wanted, because i tried to
avoid using acls on my filesystems.

Thanks,
-jsz-

On 20 Nov 2004 jsz at rdslink.ro wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using samba as a Domain Controller, and i have the following
> question:
> 
> It is possible to change an object's (file/dir) GROUP from Windows
> Explorer on a Samba server? I tried editing/changing via Security tab the
> unix-mapped Special Permission trio ($user, $group, Everybody) but it
> fails when I tried to save with the "Unable to save permission changes on
> <object>. Permission denied" message. I was logged in as admin user. Unix
> <-> NT Group mappings are OK. Everything else works fine, so I can take
> ownership, I can change other file/dir permissions like Read/Write/Exec on
> user/group/other.
> 
> 
> Tried on systems:
> 
> RedHat 7.3
> 2.4.20-28.7smp
> samba-3.0.9 (rebuilt from samba.org-wendored .src.rpm)
> (also tried with 3.0.7)
> ext3 fs
> 
> Fedora Core 3
> 2.6.9-xxx (latest update at this time)
> samba-3.0.8pre2 (original distro build)
> ext3 fs
> 
> I also tried changing GROUP using smbcacls, and if I used
> 
>    - with -G <groupname> works OK, the object's group is changed
>    - with -M GROUP:<groupname> fails as did not returns any error message
>      but no change happen
> 
> Same effect if I tried changing the OWNER via smbcacls, -C works fine,
> -M OWNER:<ownername> fails to produce any changes without an error.
> 
> I tried this on all of my systems, the same effect all the time.
> 
> If You need further data such as my smb.conf just ask for it, I
> didn't want to flood the list with unsolicitated information.
> 
> Any clue?
> 
> Thanks,
> -jsz-
> 
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