[Samba] 'inherit owner' doesn't play nice with 'force directory mode'

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Aug 19 15:53:22 MDT 2009


On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 02:16:54PM -0700, jw wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Jeremy Allison<jra at samba.org> wrote:
> >
> > Well I'm creating the directory with a logged in user
> > of "jra", who is in the "eng" group. I don't think the
> > setting of the guest account has anything to do with
> > it as I'm not logging in as guest at all.
> >
> 
> Hmm.. Well I switched to 'security = user' and created an account,
> made a new share that looks exactly like yours, made the directory
> permissions match yours (except my group name is different), and
> created the dir with smbclient and the authenticated samba user, but
> no joy.
> 
> Still the owner of the new dir is that of the creating user, not the
> parent directory.

Not happening on my system. The inherit owner works
as specified.

Jeremy.


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