[Samba] on linux samba file shares, groups and user are randomlly lost. Using samba4 as Domain controller

Rowland Penny rowlandpenny241155 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 1 16:30:08 UTC 2015


On 01/09/15 14:24, Mario Pio Russo wrote:
> Great thanks, I'll test your config files now!
>
> some questions before:
>
>> I would also recommend Installing the 'acl' & 'attr' packages (if not
> already installed),
>
> those are installed and at the latest version on the file share server, are
> they needed on the AD too (I would think no)?

Yes

>
>
>> read up on using POSIX ACLs and lose the 'force'  lines in the member
> server conf and use POSIX ACLs instead.
>
> Sorry but I don't get this, what do you mean? some parameters in the
> smb.conf to seutp? thanks!

Have a look here: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Shares_with_Windows_ACLs

Basically, you do not have the lines starting with 'force' in the 
shares, you set the share permissions from windows.

Rowland






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