[Samba] SFU Samba Permission Denied

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Sep 22 00:46:28 GMT 2004


On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 05:09:50PM -0500, Edward Spragins wrote:
> I recently ran into a problem accessing Samba shares from SFU. From
> SFU's /net directory, I could read from files, move files, create
> directories and even append to files using >>. But, when I tried to
> create a file, I received a "Permission Denied" message.
> 
> After looking at the logs I found something which looked out of place.
> 
> I am currently using (I tried many different variations):
> WindowsXP SP1; SFU version 3.5
> RedHat version 7.2; Samba version 3.0.7
> 
> Below is from the client log after turning the debug level to 10:
> 
> [2004/09/21 15:06:46, 10] smbd/posix_acls.c:set_nt_acl(2990)
>   set_nt_acl: called for file test1.txt
> [2004/09/21 15:06:46, 5] smbd/posix_acls.c:unpack_nt_owners(909)
>   unpack_nt_owners: validating owner_sids.
> [2004/09/21 15:06:46, 10] passdb/lookup_sid.c:sid_to_uid(401)
>   sid_to_uid: winbind lookup for non-local sid
> S-1-5-21-1951701912-1418144344-1147873810-2551 failed
> [2004/09/21 15:06:46, 3] smbd/posix_acls.c:unpack_nt_owners(927)
>   unpack_nt_owners: unable to validate owner sid for
> S-1-5-21-1951701912-1418144344-1147873810-2551
> 
> unpack_nt_owners returns False which causes set_nt_acl to return False
> which leads to the Permission Denied error message.
> 
> Only SFU clients cause Samba to call set_nt_acl on this share. The
> share, btw, is on an ext3 file system with no ACL support.

Can you send me an ethereal capture trace of this activity
(from client mount of the drive to "permission denied" message),
plus the Samba debug level 10 log.

Thanks,

	Jeremy.


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