[Samba] SeBackupPrivilege

[Lawrence Walton]

samba at divus.org [samba at divus.org] wrote:
> We're using Samba 3.0.21a-1 on a CentOS 4.2 server (kernel 
> 2.6.9-22.0.2.ELsmp); everything works more or less fine, 
> it's functioning as the PDC with an OpenLDAP back end (setup 
> essentially straight from the Idealx.org playbook), etc.
> 
> We're trying to mount Windows shares to back them up, and 
> getting "permission denied" errors when trying to read 
> certain files from those shares.
> 
> A typical operation might look like this:
> 
> server:~# mount -t smbfs -o 
> username="\\LCLDOMAIN\backup",password="password" 
> //workstation/share /mnt/backup
> 
> server:~# tar jcvf /mnt/backup_drive/workstation.tar.bz2 
> /mnt/backup
> 
> The backup user has the SeBackupPrivilege right set, which 
> to my understanding should allow it read-access to every 
> file on those shares...?
> 
> server:~# net rpc rights list backup
> Password:
> SeBackupPrivilege
> 
> I'd love to know what I'm doing wrong.  Haven't really 
> touched Samba since 2.0 was in Beta, so to say I'm slightly 
> in over my head might be an understatement...
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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Why not use cifs instead of smbfs? seems to work better for me.


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