[Samba] Cannot write over root owned file

[david rankin]

From: "Larry Alkoff" <labradley at mindspring.com>
> However, when I tried to copy over a root owned file, first as su and then 
> as su -, the operation failed.  Why can't I copy over a root owned file 
> when I'm root?
>
> I also noticed that, when I touched as su or su -, I could create the file 
> but in each case owner was lba:users.  However, when I did the same touch 
> within my own file system, the file owner became root.
>
> I smbmounted the share with a simple _root_ script containing:
> smbmount  //tillie/all  /mnt/tillie  -o uid=0
> Shouldn't that have given me root priviledges?
>
> Which leads to the question,  how do I act as root on a samba share?
> Or perhaps the question is how do I become root on the share?
> Is sharing as root okay or is it bad practice?  Why?
>

Larry, in your smb.conf, try this:

        valid users = you
        force user = root
        force group = root
        admin users = you

I believe if you just set admin users = whoever, that will force the user 
and group to root by default. It has been a while since I played with this, 
but I still use it and it works...

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