Re: [Samba] Samba vs Linux file permissions

2011-06-03 Thread Robert W. Smith
John, For the [chemgroup] share try [chemgroup] comment = Chemistry Group Share path = /home/chemgroup valid users = @chemgroup write list = @chemgroup browseable = no ;;writeable = yes ;;printable = no force group = @chemgroup ;; note your post left out the

Re: [Samba] Samba vs Linux file permissions

2011-06-03 Thread Robert W. Smith
John, Yes, I agree that you should not install from source--I meant to imply if you could get a deb package for your Ubuntu Server 10.10. I did not enable ACLs and User Extended Attributes until I installed the first iteration of the Samba 3.5 branch on my Fedora 13 server (I'm about to upgrade

Re: [Samba] Samba vs Linux file permissions

2011-06-03 Thread Robert W. Smith
Quoting John Maher (john at chem.umass.edu): -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I cannot find anything in the documentation or mailing list that addresses this oddity. I've installed Samba Version 3.4.7 on Ubuntu Server 10.04, and I'm utterly confused by samba's

Re: [Samba] Samba vs Linux file permissions

2011-06-03 Thread Robert W. Smith
--this might also show the SID to UID/GID mappings. Bob --bs On 06/03/2011 01:18 PM, Robert W. Smith wrote: ... John, To get back to your issue at hand...Can we see the output of your logs--the entire delete/rename transactions? Bob, thanks for your continued interest and help. Here is log

Re: [Samba] Initializing a Samba3 ldapsam

2011-02-21 Thread Robert W. Smith
On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 21:08 +1300, Mike Brady wrote: I have spent the last few days attempting to get a Samba3 PDC/BDC setup with an LDAP SAM and need some clarification on exactly what should/can be initialized in the LDAP SAM. As my main sources of information/inspiration I have been

[Samba] Samba ACLs and NFS ACLs:Differing results

2011-02-19 Thread Robert W. Smith
I have two users on my network, Mary and Bob, who work together in a shared share. They both belong to the group Accounting. Bob is a savvy Linux user who accesses the share via NFS4. Mary toils away using Windows accessing the share via the Samba server. Mary will create a directory on the share

[Samba] POSIX ACLs vs. EA security.NTACLs

2011-02-02 Thread Robert W. Smith
This might be more inclusive if I said, Linux Permissions vs POSIX ACLs vs vfs_xattr. I have recently begun to discover the power and flexibility of using POSIX ACLs (by mounting my EXT3/4 filesystems with the acl option). This solved alot of security permissions issues between Samba and Linux

Re: [Samba] smbd PANIC starting PAM

2010-08-27 Thread Robert W. Smith
I was not able to get it to reproduce yesterday. I will monitor my logs for the next several days and perform more testing over the weekend. Bob --bs -Original Message- From: Volker Lendecke [mailto:volker.lende...@sernet.de] Sent: August 26, 2010 03:26 To: Robert W. Smith Cc: samba

Re: [Samba] Problems related to error status_file_locking_conflict

2010-08-27 Thread Robert W. Smith
step on myself with this one but in the process I learned alot more about how locking works in Linux and Samba. Bob Part-time self-inflicted Linux administrator --bs On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 07:04 +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote: On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:34:21PM -0400, Robert W. Smith wrote: OK, so

Re: [Samba] Problems related to error status_file_locking_conflict

2010-08-25 Thread Robert W. Smith
Volker, yes this trick worked for the current problems but agreed that it is not a long term solution to the locking problem. Thanks, Bob --bs On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 07:04 +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote: On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:34:21PM -0400, Robert W. Smith wrote: OK, so far I now

[Samba] smbd PANIC starting PAM

2010-08-25 Thread Robert W. Smith
Happened to be tail'ing machine.log during a login session from XP client and notice the PANIC in the output. Login proceeded as usual(?) so the following snippet of the log is just informational to the developers. Let me know if you need additional info. Bob --bs [2010/08/25 21:34:21.689597,

Re: [Samba] Problems related to error status_file_locking_conflict

2010-08-23 Thread Robert W. Smith
(or too long). Any pointers are greatly appreciated. --bs On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 19:55 -0400, Robert W. Smith wrote: I am running two Fedora 13 servers, one as a Samba PDC and the other as a BDC. For the past week I have been tracing a series of issues which may or may not be related to Samba 3.5.4

[Samba] Problems related to error status_file_locking_conflict

2010-08-22 Thread Robert W. Smith
I am running two Fedora 13 servers, one as a Samba PDC and the other as a BDC. For the past week I have been tracing a series of issues which may or may not be related to Samba 3.5.4. Here is one problem that I am tracking and need help from the list with suggestions. From a wireshark trace