[Samba] managing permissions from windows (is it possible?)

[Pramod Venugopal]

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Juan,

If you have ACL support for the filesystem, and Samba has been
compiled with ACL support then yes. I have Samba 3.0.23c running on
Centos, ext3 filesystem mounted with ACL support and I can do this
from the Shares Section in the Computer Management MMC.

- - Pramod

Juan Miscaro wrote:
> I have a FreeBSD Samba box running as PDC for a WinXP network.  Is it
> possible for the Windows administrators to modify permissions
> (right-click of folders...) from their own computers?  I have already
> mapped windows groups to unix groups.  When I try to do this I either
> get a lack-of-permissions error or all the little boxes become
> unchecked again after clicking OK).
>
>
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Pramod Venugopal
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