On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Jeremy Allison <j...@samba.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 10:58:27PM -0500, suresh.kanduk...@emc.com wrote: >> Hi jeremey , This is Suresh from EMC . what is minimum version of samba >> which got ACL ( posix) support?. it looks to me samba 3.0.32 also got that >> ACL support. >> >> Can you please confirm on this?. > > Oh yes, we've had POSIX ACL support for a *long* > time. I can't remember exactly what the earliest > version was (probably a 2.2.x version). > > However we've been slowly getting better over > the years in doing the ACL mapping, culminating > with the extra Windows ACL layer stored in EA's > we now have that provides a 100% Windows compatible > protocol response to the client, but then is mapped > onto POSIX ACLs for filesystems that can't store > native (or NFSv4) ACLs. > > Jeremy.
Note that at least some of the more sophisticated ACL's, such as NFSv4, are..... awkward to use. You can reference an old thread on it at http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2010-April/155243.html.. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba