[Samba] Fwd: NT Authority\System on member servers

Moritz Zwerger bixilon at bixilon.de
Sat Nov 8 11:41:25 UTC 2025


Hi there,
I got the strange error that Windows is not creating a profile folder 
(user.V6) on the network share (configured via gpo). The user has the 
permission and can manually create it, but otherwise just the blue pop 
up is there (login not possible).

I tracked this down and (think) that the issue is, that I am not 
granting permissions to the SYSTEM account to that particular share (See 
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/The_SYSTEM_Account).

However I am unable to find that specific user on a domain member. It 
exists on the domain controller (same samba version) and I can look it 
up with id "NT Authority\system".


The member server has pretty much the following configuration:
[global]
         netbios name = USERHOME
         disable netbios = yes
         password server = DC.DOMAIN.MUC
         realm = DOMAIN.MUC
         security = ADS
         server role = member server
         winbind use default domain = Yes
         workgroup = DOMAIN
         idmap config * : range = 10000-9999999
         idmap config * : backend = autorid
         idmap_ldb:use rfc2307 = yes


I do not want to use jibberish NT ACLs, I am using setfacl to set the 
permission:

setfacl --set u::rwx,g::rwx,g:"domain users":rwx,other::--- "/profiles"
...

I am running Samba version 4.22.3-Debian-4.22.3+dfsg-4 from debian 
trixie inside both containers.


My question is:

How can I grant (at least fake it for windows) that the SYSTEM user has 
full permission?


Thanks, appreciate any help!


Moritz





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