[Samba] Use windows to set file permissions.

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Mon Jun 22 13:51:16 GMT 2009


>> And you need winbind to fetch the fetch out of the domain, otherwise
>> windows could not known the samba-users.
>>
> You only need winbind if your server is a member server of a Windows Active
> Directory.
>
> I am setting file permissions from Windows on a Linux Samba PDC and I don't
> use winbind.
>
PDCs work with out winbind but domain member servers do not seem to
work without winbind. Also with a domain member server I was required
to have a working idmap otherwise every time I set an acl in XP it
just got reset back to the default after pressing ok.

> You need a filesystem with ACL support (not only EXT3) or another method to
> store ACLs such as Extended Attributes or a TDB database using one of the
> VFS modules provided with Samba.
>
This is essential.

John


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