[Samba] Getting Samba to only use filesystem permission checks

[Adam Nielsen]

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know whether it's possible to get Samba to skip doing its
internal permission checks and instead rely on the OS for this?

The reason I ask is that I have a single share called "web" which
contains three folders.  Each of these folders is a remote CIFS mount
from another Samba server.  The problem is that UNIX extensions are
enabled for all of these mounts, so all the files are owned by UIDs and
GIDs which don't make sense on my local system.

I don't want to disable the UNIX extensions as I like the ability to
use "chmod", so instead I mounted each remote share with the "noperm"
option to disable permission checking at the local filesystem.  This
works perfectly in that all local users have full access to the mounted
share, even though they don't own the files or belong to any file's
group.

The problem is that Samba still checks the UID and GID and denies
remote requests based on these, even though the same user would be able
to perform the operation locally thanks to the "noperm" mount option.

Is there any way to disable Samba's built in checks?  I'm hoping that
doing so would mean Samba would always try to
read/write/delete/whatever and it would be up to the underlying
filesystem to return success or failure depending on its idea of
permissions.

Thanks,
Adam.