[Samba] Directory permission windows issue

[John Drescher]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Conor O'Callaghan
<cocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been trying to fix this issue for over a week with no avail. I am
> using samba 3.0.28a/29 authenticating against AD server. This functions
> correctly and I can set permissions correctly on files and can see the
> permissions in the XP security dialog. However the same cannot be said of
> directories in samba. I can create directories and once created I can change
> permissions, however the permissions never show in the XP security dialog
> box, thus making it extremely difficult to know what permissions have been
> set on a directory form a windows user point of view. If I watch the
> permissions on the directory in linux I can see the permissions being
> changed according to what is requested. This is little use though as the
> windows user will never know or forget what permissions they have set.
>
> Is it possible to resolve this in some way? The partition for the share is
> mounted with acls and the kernel is 2.6.18-6-686 on debian etch.
>
I have found for this to work you need to setup idmap, winbind and to
enable acls on your unix filesystem.

John