[Samba] share folders in BTRFS w/o having to retransfer back from a wind0ze computer

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 02:18 -0400, samba at cocoavillagepublishing.com
wrote:
> I have the samba with AC DC running...  that was fun...not.
> Debian Wheezy with backport,
> # samba --version
> Version 4.1.7-Debian
> 
> and I am using BTRFS for the file systems.
> 
> My issue.
> 
> I have about 400gig of files that were shared with a samba the old way, 
> security = user
> I was hoping I could just change the ownership recursively to be 
> something standard, like root:sambashares
> and put it in the smb.conf, reload then use computer management
> on a windows box to set owners and groups
> 
> I did read https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setup_and_configure_file_shares
> and googled stuff elswhere..
> 
> However, only the folders made during provisioning seem to be manageable 
> from the windows computers.
> 
> My thought, the "acl" is not set...  I had hoped maybe samba would do 
> that for me....
> 
> I was able to use the folder created during provisioning to
> create other shares underneath and manipulate from a windows machine.
> And I do see the "+" when I do an ls -al
>   ls -al /var/lib/samba/sysvol
> total 0
> drwxrwx---+ 1 root 3000000  80 Jun  2 16:42 .
> drwxr-xr-x  1 root root    334 Jun  2 16:42 ..
> drwxrwx---+ 1 root 3000000  30 May 28 13:13 myrealm.com
> 
> 
> However if I create say, /exports and and did not use a folder under those
> created during provisioning, /var/lib/samba/sysvol
> I can not properly affect the permissions from my windows computers, and 
> the "+"
> does not show..
> 
> I googled elsewhere and thought to use "setfacl"  and from what I read 
> suggested
> that doing that from the unix side for samba was not feasible.
> 
> I read some examples that lead me to think I should do a generic setfacl 
> setting
> and maybe let samba change it... that did not work for me.
> 
> ---  So how do I share folders and files already on the unix box in
> mounted from a different partition with a btrfs file system?
> 
> I hope I am just missing something or doing something oops obvious...

You missed to include your smb.conf so we could see what is different
between your shares.

Is [netlogon] also on btrfs?

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                       http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team  http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Catalyst IT          http://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba