[Samba] acl_xattr access denied when adding permissions for another user

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Apr 5 17:09:59 MDT 2011


On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 12:40:12PM +0200, Thomas Nau wrote:
> Dear all
> We run Samba 3.5.8 on a Solaris 11 box on top of ZFS We got the
> impression that the VFS module acl_xattr provides the best way
> of keeping Windows ACLs. We don't have concurrent NFS or local users
> so it's Windows only.
> 
> The clients as well as the Samba server are members of an AD domain.
> Creating files/directories works as expected and also manipulating
> permissions for the initial user/group does not raise any problem.
> Trying to add permissions for an additional user (looked up in AD)
> fails with the Windows XP client side "permission denied" pop-up box.

If you're using ZFS (which has native NFSv4 ACLs) why not use
the vfs_zfsacl module ?

Jeremy.


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