[Samba] Re: Unable to set ACLs with Samba 3.0.11, near publication deadline

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:59:38PM -0600, Thomas Boutell wrote:
> Anybody have a roadkill cookbook?
> 
> Because I have some crow to eat, and I'm not sure how best
> to prepare it. Sigh.
> 
> I didn't have writable = yes set on the share. The fact that smbcacls 
> didn't work (and still doesn't work!) blinded me to this more obvious
> issue. Once I set writable = yes, of course, I was able to change
> acls from a true Windows client... which was of course my
> actual goal. I'd created my test files in advance on the Linux
> side, so the no-write-permissions-at-all issue wasn't obvious at
> any other time.
> 
> Thanks for the attention you gave to the matter. Next time, if I'm
> not able to spot the issue myself, I'll be sure to include my
> *entire* smb.conf in the report.

I'm glad you spotted it - your request was next on my queue once
I'd fixed the findfirst/findnext problem with smbclient....

Cheers,

	Jeremy.