[Samba] Changing group name via samba-tool and other

Александр Свиридов ooo_saturn7 at mail.ru
Thu Apr 25 00:28:07 MDT 2013


Hello!

Среда, 24 апреля 2013, 22:01 +02:00 от Marc Muehlfeld <samba at marc-muehlfeld.de>:
>Hello,
>
>Am 24.04.2013 21:01, schrieb Pavel:
>> But I am shocked. I know samba is free and it means a lot,
> > but CRUD operations are always together. I am a programmer
> > myself and I know what I say. How can it be possible?
>
>As every software, there's no version that is totally fitting all needs 
>from everybody. samba-tool, like everything else on that project is 
>growing and getting better with every version. I understand what you mean, but is base functionality. For example I do a programm like (mc) which creates folder. So I must add delete operation. If I don't add rename operation it may mean only one - it's careless work.
>
>I'm sure, that samba-tool will provide more features in future versions.
>
>But if you are a programmer and familiar with python, you can help 
>adding new features to samba-tool. On the samba-technical mailing list 
>you can ask for some first information to start, if you want to help.
>
Unfortunately I don't know python and never worked with it.

>
>
> > Can samba 4 be used in production mode?
>
>For me: Absolutely. I migrated our domain at work to samba 4, when it 
>was in beta state (150 users, 230 workstations). And it's running 
>perfect stable and I'm very happy with my samba4 backend.
>
>But as everything in production, you should of course validate if the 
>software is fitting your needs at your site.
>
>
>
>
>> And one more question. In samba 3 we used create mask , force create..
> > to set file permisions. In samba 4 as I understand those options are
> > ignored and default acls are used instead. But, is it possible to set
> > by default different permisions on files and folders. For example
> > on folders rwx, and on files rw-. Because I dont want to give x
> > permision to file as I think it can be dangerous.
>
>I currently don't have samba4 servers with 'create mask', etc. (only on 
>3.6.x servers) and haven't looked at that yet. Have you tried it with 4.x? Yes, I tried create mask etc in samba 4 - are ignored totally. So the question is open how to set different default permissions on file and folders in samba4.
>
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>
>Regards,
>Marc



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