"Access denied" when non-admin tries to create a file on a share
Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer
mdw at samba.org
Tue Aug 21 11:56:39 MDT 2012
Hi Philip,
probably it is exactly this issue which you are facing:
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8987
If you have a bugzilla account feel free to CC yourself.
Matthias Wallnöfer
Philip M. White schrieb:
> Hello;
>
> I am running Samba4 alpha22 on Gentoo Linux. Recently I did two
> things: I upgraded Samba4 from alpha15 to alpha22 (as a clean install,
> then copied the 'private' directory into it, etc.), and I rebuilt the
> filesystems to be on software RAID.
>
> I have multiple shares created with Samba. They all used to work
> perfectly, but now when a non-administrator tries to create a file,
> the Windows client tells him, "Access denied." However, the user is
> able to *change* any existing file, and delete files.
>
> I don't see any relevant log entry in Samba's logs, with loglevel set
> to 3. The "Security" tab (and cacls.exe) shows that everything is
> kosher. I give the user "Full control", but he still cannot create
> new files.
>
> To help debug this, I created a brand-new ext4 filesystem on the
> server, mounted it with user_xattrs,acl, shared it with Samba4, and as
> the domain administrator allowed a non-administrator full access.
> That non-administrator is still unable to create new files. So now I
> am at a loss.
>
> Please advise.
>
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