On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 12:56 +0000, Jonathan Adams wrote: > I am having real troubles with one of our servers. > Background: > We have been using samba in our company for more than 11 years now, since > version 1.9.16 ... > We run Sun Solaris on our servers. > We used to run NIS+ as our password system, but due to it's almost > impossibility to manage (basically only I knew how) we've moved to LDAP ... > We have now decided to centralize all our Samba passwords into the LDAP.
Because LDAP is easier to manage! :) I've been an OpenLDAP admin for 10 + years... that really illustrates how horrible NIS was. > On the one machine configured to use LDAP for passwords we have a mysterious > problem, If we access the machine via a Windows computer (XP, Vista, etc) we > can create files and folders we can even rename and delete folders, but we > cannot rename or delete files. This sounds like a basic permissions problem. If NSS is working, and you've authenticated, it pretty much has to be a permissions problem. > If we access the machine via a Solaris or Linux machine using smbclient we > can do everything. Maybe those are invoking "unix extensions". I've got no clue how that specifically would effect permission handling. > I originally wondered if it was due to the Sun compiled Samba 3.0.35 server > that is installed, so i removed it and compiled in 3.4.2 with OpenLDAP > support, but it has exactly the same issues. Which even more strongly points to a permissions issue. > This problem does not occur on our other machines (that run ldap as their > naming service in all but samba) ... I'm not sure what this means. > I'm happy to show all relevant information and logs/debugs if > necessary > I have seen some people talk about this before on the internet, but there > doesn't appear to be any answer. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
