[Samba] Re: chown failure on a samba share

[Shirish Pargaonkar]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Shirish Pargaonkar
<shirishpargaonkar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is this working as designed or a samba bug?
>
> I am trying to chown ownership of a file in a samba share and it
> results in an error.
>
> cifstest6:~ # smbclient //cifstest8/smb8 -U root
> Enter root's password:
> Domain=[CIFSTEST8] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.0-GIT-e6a5f11-devel]
> smb: \> chown 65534 65534 file2
> NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED chown file \file2 uid=65534, gid=65534
>
> The share is thus exported
>
> [smb88]
>        path =  /tmp/cifstest88
>        browseable = Yes
>        read only = No
>        guest ok = Yes
>        writable = yes
>        printable = yes
>
> ls -l /tmp/cifstest8/file2
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 10 10:47 /tmp/cifstest8/file2
>
>
> [2009/03/10 11:40:24,  3] smbd/trans2.c:6831(call_trans2setfilepathinfo)
>  call_trans2setfilepathinfo(6) file2 (fnum -1) info_level=512 totdata=100
> [2009/03/10 11:40:24, 10] smbd/trans2.c:6069(smb_set_file_unix_basic)
>  smb_set_file_unix_basic: SMB_SET_FILE_UNIX_BASIC: name = file2 size
> = 0, uid = 65534, gid = 65533, raw perms = 037777777777
> [2009/03/10 11:40:24, 10] smbd/trans2.c:6129(smb_set_file_unix_basic)
>  smb_set_file_unix_basic: SMB_SET_FILE_UNIX_BASIC changing owner
> 65534 for path file2
> [2009/03/10 11:40:24,  3] smbd/error.c:60(error_packet_set)
>  error packet at smbd/trans2.c(7087) cmd=50 (SMBtrans2) NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
>

Sorry, I pasted wrong stanza in smb.conf, the correct one being

[smb8]
        path =  /tmp/cifstest8
        browseable = Yes
        read only = No
        guest ok = Yes
        writable = yes