[Samba] modifying file permissions

[mallapadi niranjan]

Hi Gary

First of all the permissions assigned from windows are actually Access
control lists which are not supported by default

so first enable acl support for the filesystem for which you want to assign
permissions from windows.
ie /etc/fstab file for example for /public file system

LABEL=/public              /public                       ext3    defaults,*
acl *       1 1

and give this command
mount -o remount,rw /public

and in smb.conf in global section add the following entries
nt acl support = yes
inherit acls = Yes
map acl inherit = Yes

Try this

Regards
Niranjan

On 12/8/06, Gary R. Day <grday at grday-home.net> wrote:

> Folks,
>
>     I have smbd 2.2.7 running on a Redhat Linux 9.0 system
> from which I am mapping directories onto my Windows XP Professional
> system.
>
> For the most part everything is working fine.  The one thing that doesn't
> seem to work is that of changing permissions on a file from Windows.
> I have a user grday in group developer on the linux system with
> home directory /home/grday.  I have the smb.conf file shown below.
> The share mapps ok, and I can create a file which gets the correct
> permissions from the creation mask.  However, when I right-click
> the file, and select the security tab from the properties dialog,
> and then try to set the write permission for the developer group
> I get "access denied" when I click ok.
>
> Also, an oddity is that, unless I put user "nobody" in the
> smbpasswd database I get a lot of messages like:
>
> [2006/12/04 16:55:25, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(545)
> Couldn't find user 'nobody' in passdb.
>
> I have a similar problem with smbd 2.2.12 running on a solaris 9 system
> with a bunch of Windows 2000 clients.  In that case, I got rid of
> the nobody messages by putting nobody in the smbpasswd database.
> However, I now get a lot of messages like:
>
> [2006/12/04 10:28:46, 0] smbd/service.c:(563)
> Can't become connected user!
>
> The messages don't seem to do any harm, but I'm wondering if they
> have anything to do with my inability to change permissions.
>
> here is my smb.conf file.
>
>
>       [global]
> interfaces = 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.0 192.168.1.7/255.255.255.0
> bind interfaces only = yes
> name resolve order = hosts
> invalid users = root
> null passwords = yes
> security = user
>       encrypt passwords = yes
> log level = 1
> max log size = 1000
>          lock directory = /var/lock/samba
> directory mask = 0755
> create mask = 0644
>    map archive = yes
>          share modes = yes
> read only = no
> delete readonly = yes
> browsable = no
>
> [homes]
> valid users = +developer
>
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