[Samba] Too Many Ace Entries for file

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:40:08AM -0800, liz wrote:
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> Greetings,
> 
> I am encountering a problem with Samba and setting acl's for
> files/directories from the security dialog on my Windows clients. I
> can easily toggle the file permissions. However, it am not able to
> add/remove user/groups from the GUI interface on my windows clients. I
> have also noticed when I add access with setfacl it doesn't not show
> up in the security dialog.
> 
> I did notice when perusing the source code (posix_acl's.x) that it is
> running a check here:
> 
> ~ if (ace_count != 3) {
> ~                DEBUG(3,("convert_canon_ace_to_posix_perms: Too many
> ACE entries for file %s to convert to \
> posix perms.\n", fsp->fsp_name ));
> ~                return False;
> ~        }
> 
> I did attempt to bump it up but it just stopped erroring out :) ( Duh
> liz!) still didnt work.. Any ideas?

Looks like your Samba hasn't been compiled or isn't detecting ACL
support.

That code is only executed when ACL detection on the filesystem
fails.

Jeremy.