[Samba] Weird, sudden 3.4 problem. [Solved]

[Don Krause]

On Apr 11, 2013, at 12:23 PM, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:18:46PM -0700, Don Krause wrote:
>> 
>> On Apr 11, 2013, at 12:08 PM, Jeremy Allison wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:01:02PM -0700, Don Krause wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> [homes]
>>>>      admin users = %S
>>> 
>>> Having admins users = %S seems strange. Is this what you want ?
>>> 
>>>      admin users (S)
>>> 
>>>          This is a list of users who will be granted administrative privileges on the share. This means that they will do all
>>>          file operations as the super-user (root).
>>> 
>>>          You should use this option very carefully, as any user in this list will be able to do anything they like on the
>>>          share, irrespective of file permissions.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Jeremy.
>>> 
>> 
>> We had a similar problem when we migrated to Win 7 back in 2010. At that time, shares from [homes] were viewable, but
>> unwritable with "valid users = %S" so we switched to "admin users = %S" and all was well.
>> 
>> We only have this on the [homes] shares. And this is also the affected users u*ix home, they can do what ever they want anyway,
>> so it seemed a reasonable risk.
> 
> Well it means they're accessing everything as root.
> Are you *sure* that's a reasonable risk ? :-).
> 

Ok, eliminating both "Valid users" and "admin users" and adding "write list = %S"  to the [homes] share appears for have solved the issue. 

Thanks!

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Don Krause