[Samba] Samba permission problem

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 11:24:41PM +0200, Marco Lovadina wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>                 I have an Ubuntu server acting as PDC on a LAN whose client
> have WIN Xp professional installed.
> 
>                 Domain's users are divided into different groups. Let's
> focus on only two of them, say group1 and group2.
> 
>                 Now I have        a share defined in smb.conf as follows:
> 
>                 
> 
>                 [shareName]
> 
>                 comment = shareName
> 
>                 path = /home/ut/shareName
> 
>                 read only = No 
> 
>                 guest ok = no
> 
>                 create mask = 0665
> 
>                 directory mask = 0770
> 
>                 force group = group1
> 
>                 
> 
>                 Access rights for shareName are : rwxrwxr-x.
> 
>                 There's a subdir of shareName whose access rights are:
> rwxrwx---
> 
>                 
> 
> I'd like that no one not belonging to group1 could access to this subdir.
> 
> Unfotunately, accessing from a win xp client, users belonging to group2
> could visit and listing the subdir.
> 
> Surprisingly, this doesn't occurs if I modify the subdir's access rights so
> that they become: rwx---r-x.
> 
> It seems like group access specification were swapped with others access
> ones, but I can't understand why.
> 
> Of course I'd like to have a more consistent behaviour. Is there something
> I'm missing?
> 
> Otherwise, how can I do to fix what looks like a mistake?

Need more info. What are the ownerships on those directories ?

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Thanks,

Jeremy.