[Samba] Inherit Owner / Permissions

[Jeffrey Johnson]

User is in the digicol group and thus has permissions to write to the
directory.   The problem is inheriting the owner.

Jeff

On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 3:44 PM Rowland Penny via samba <
samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 01/03/2023 20:45, Jeffrey Johnson via samba wrote:
> > A user is attempting to use Windows Powershell get-childitem command to
> > copy files from one SMB directory to another.
> >
> > *****************
> > Get-ChildItem -Path "W:\z_TestFiles\source1" -Recurse -File |
> > ForEach-Object {
> >      Copy-Item -Path $_.FullName -Destination "X:\dest1"
> > }
> > *****************
> >
> > When the command is run it creates the files as 0 byte files and then
> > errors.
> >
> > *****************
> > Copy-Item : Element not found.
> > At line:2 char:5
> > +     Copy-Item -Path $_.FullName -Destination "X:\dest1 ...
> > +     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >      + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Copy-Item], IOException
> >      + FullyQualifiedErrorId :
> > System.IO.IOException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.CopyItemCommand
> > *****************
> >
> > When I look at the zero byte files in Unix
> > drwxrwxr-x   2 ourapp    digicol        6 Mar  1 14:02 .
> > drwxrwx---   8 user digicol       11 Mar  1 14:02 ..
> > -rwxrw-r--   1 ourapp    digicol        0 Mar  1 14:03 2022-02-15
> > 12_49_46-TeraCopy.jpg
> >
> > When I set the owner of the directory to the user.  This works fine.
> > drwxrwxr-x   2 user    digicol        6 Mar  1 14:02 .
> > drwxrwx---   8 user digicol       11 Mar  1 14:02 ..
> > -rwxrw-r--   1 user    digicol  14321 Mar  1 14:03 2022-02-15
> > 12_49_46-TeraCopy.jpg
> >
> > Cutting and pasting using Windows Explorer and Teracopy, usually but not
> > every time, works properly.    I haven't figured out what causes this to
> > work sometimes and not others.
> >
> >  From what I have seen the problem is the inheriting of the owner, which
> is
> > necessary for our application and outside of my control.
> >
> > In our smb.conf file
> > [global]
> >     allow insecure wide links = yes
> >     unix extensions = no
> >     log level = 1
> >     load printers = no
> >     printing = bsd
> >     printcap name = /dev/null
> >     disable spoolss = yes
> >     min protocol = SMB2
> >     workgroup = MYGROUP
> >     server role = standalone server
> >
> > [application]
> >          path = /application
> >          comment = Application Shared Folder
> >          follow symlinks = yes
> >          wide links = yes
> >          writable = yes
> >          inherit permissions = yes
> >          inherit owner = yes
> >          inherit acls = yes
> >          valid users = @application
> >
> >
> > Solaris 11.4
> > Samba 4.13.17
> >
> > In advice on what I need to look at to make this behave properly.
> >
>
> Set the correct permissions ;-)
>
> Your user is connecting to the '..' directory and is allowed access to
> the '.' directory
> it now gets access to the '.' directory via others but doesn't have
> write access.
>
> Basically the user needs to traverse the entire path and have write
> access on the finally directory
>
> Rowland
>
>
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