[Samba] What's the use of SeDiskOperatorPrivilege?

[Rowland penny]

On 28/01/2021 14:18, Andrew Walker via samba wrote:
> Off the top of my head, there are a couple cases where share permissions
> are useful:
> 1) You're using the smb.conf parameter "access based share enum" to limit
> visibility of shares in the browse list.
> 2) You need to strictly enforce a share-wide upper bound on permissions.
> For instance, this can be done to limit what the owner of a file can do
> (although it's probably better to do this through an "OWNER RIGHTS" S-1-3-4
> entry in the NTFS ACL).


Andrew, The problem seems to be that if you change the 'shares' tab, 
then you cannot change the permissions on the 'security' tab. Because of 
this, I wouldn't advise changing the 'shares' tab, do everything on the 
'security' tab.

Rowland