[Samba] Samba and Windows ACL Issue

[Doug VanLeuven]

John,
Why should acl support be needed for a simple owner or group change?

Regards, Doug

John H Terpstra wrote:

>Ross,
>
>The fstab below shows that your file systems are NOT mounted with ACL support.
>To gain ACL support you need:
>1. A the ACL and EA functionality in the Linux kernel
>2. To mount the file systems with ACL and XATTR support
>3. Samba compiled and linked with the ACL and XATTR libraries
>
>An example fstab entry to mount a file system with ACL and XATTR support is 
>given here:
>
>LABEL=/export/1    /export/1     ext3    defaults,acl,user_xattr 1 2
>
>Cheers,
>John T.
>
>On Friday 27 May 2005 08:48, Ross McInnes wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi Tonni
>>
>>LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
>>LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
>>none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
>>LABEL=/export/1         /export/1               ext3    defaults        1 2
>>LABEL=/export/2         /export/2               ext3    defaults        1 2
>>none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
>>none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
>>/dev/sda3               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
>>/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660
>>noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
>>/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner,kudzu
>>0 0
>>
>>That's my fstab
>>
>>Student accounts are on /export/1
>>Staff on /export/2
>>
>>Many thanks
>>
>>Ross
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: samba-bounces+sysrm=stvincent.ac.uk at lists.samba.org
>>[mailto:samba-bounces+sysrm=stvincent.ac.uk at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of
>>Tony Earnshaw
>>Sent: 27 May 2005 15:00
>>To: samba at lists.samba.org
>>Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba and Windows ACL Issue
>>
>>fre, 27.05.2005 kl. 15.20 skrev Ross McInnes:
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>>>Hi all got a bit of and odd problem with ACL. Ive read up on a few
>>>bits in the samba howto and read some threads on here about it.
>>>
>>>Im not sure if this is a bug, something ive not done, doing wrong etc
>>>so anyone that could shed some light on it that would be great.
>>>
>>>Basically the windows box handles all user account processing and
>>>during creating a script for all this it will attempt to change the
>>>permissions on the HOME directory to the user in question
>>>
>>>(i.e C:\>cacls Z:\Students\2005\sb05 /G sb05:F /T /E)
>>>
>>>But I always get Access is denied. Even tho its currently owned by
>>>administrator.
>>>
>>>Trying the "manual" way, and the ways listed in the offical samba
>>>howto guide produces similar results.
>>>      
>>>
>>Sounds as though you don't have POSIX ACLs enabled on the Samba share
>>mount.
>>
>>    
>>
>>>The only way I can change the owner is to go into linux and use the
>>>chown command.
>>>
>>>After that its set to the correct user and all is well... Except by
>>>doing it by hand kinda rains on my lovely automatic user creation script!
>>>
>>>Samba.log file shows me no errors, as do any of the others. If there a
>>>switch/option I need to enable?
>>>
>>>Below is smb.conf
>>>
>>>Im running RHES3, Samba 3.0.14a and Windows 2k3 AD in mixed Mode.
>>>      
>>>
>>[...]
>>
>>The OS has ACL support as standard, but it's not enabled by default.
>>What does /etc/fstab look like for the share mount?
>>
>>--Tonni
>>
>>--
>>mail: tonye at billy.demon.nl
>>http://www.billy.demon.nl
>>
>>Eg er bergenser og, eg, men, Trondheims-ordfører Marvin Wiseth:
>>«Bergenserne er flinke til å gjøre mye ut av lite» (uttalte seg over 17.
>>mai feiringen iår, men gjelder sannsynligvis og dette mel mitt).
>>
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