[Samba] Different permissions displayed in "security" tab and"advanced" tab

David Roid dataroid at gmail.com
Sat Jun 25 08:23:51 MDT 2011


Ok, thanks for your replies, frankly I still don't understand why Samba
behaves like this, sounds like an inherent issue, then I can live with that.

2011/6/25 Linda Walsh <samba at tlinx.org>

> Dale Schroeder wrote:
>
>> On 06/24/2011 12:11 AM, Linda W wrote:
>> David was trying to view and change permissions on a user that was already
>> listed on the security tab; he was not adding a user or group.
>>
> ----
>        I did this just now, changed it to full control for the one listed
> user and group and 'Everyone'...  I then told it to propagate ....
> it did, but visiting a sub folder doesn't have the 'propagated from parent'
> message.
>
>        But the perms got changed with the exception of trying to delete
> 'Creator_owner and 'creator_group'...they see to not be deletable.
>
> I haven't tested the full extent of changing 'creator-owner/group', but
> the user and group that are listed as the creator owner&group is
> changeable.
>
>
>  If yours looks like mine, the permissions of the user and group defined as
>> the posix owner and group are blanked out, and if  you try to mark anything
>> there, it will fail.
>>
> ---
>        They are not blanked out -- they say 'special' because they only
> apply to the current folder (and are not propagated).  Otherwise they say
> 'Full control' which is what the user has....but the user's perms can be
> set to 'full control' on the security and permisions page because you
> can set the user and group id's to have Full control that is inheritable
> on the subdirs and file.  But right now, unix doesn't support have the
> 'inherited from' information set....(because the acls are set on each item,
> whereas on NT may files can share 1 access list.  Much like on linux,
> already, multiple names can point to the same inode.
>
>
>  Sometimes, there will be an error window popup; other times, the checked
>>
>
>  Like you, I have the drive mounted with user_xattr and acl.
>>
> ---
>        My mount options include no user_xattr or acl options  (they aren't
> 'options' in xfs but 'features', like unix permission bits - they don't
> have to be specified to be turned on).
>
>  This is a long standing difference between Samba and native MS, more of an
>> annoyance than a problem.
>> I have read that Samba is working on full acl compatibility with MS, I
>> think in 3.6.  We'll have to wait and see if this corrects the differences.
>>
>
>
> I'm currently running 3.6, so maybe that explains some of the differences
> we are seeing...
>
>
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