On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 10:31:00AM +0200, Zounek, Alex, Patentanwaltskanzlei Zounek wrote: > Dear List, > > I'd like to report my observations on a Samba new file permissions problem > for which I found > dozens of support requests on the net without any useful replies. > > Hopefully, my observations help identify the root cause of this issue which > also seems to occur > with new Samba versions 3.0.x. > > In our domain we operate a file server under Samba 2.2.8a as PDC. Overall we > are delighted with Samba. > Many thanks and compliments to the Samba team. > > There is only one slightly annoying issue with new file permissions. > > > 1. PDC �maestro� hosts 2 Samba shares named �parent� and �child� which are > set up as: > > [parent] > path=/home/data/parent > writeable=Yes > > [child] > path=/home/data/parent/child > browseable=No > writeable=Yes > oplocks=no > level2 oplocks=no > create mode = 0770 > force create mode = 0660 > directory mode = 0770 > force directory mode = 0770 > > > 2. The Linux permissions on both directories �parent� and �child� are: > > drwxrwx--- root users i.e. members of the users group have rwx > permissions. > > > 3. On our Windows NT and XP client machines we have mapped the �parent� > share to network drive X: > > > 4. If user �otto� who is a member of the users group accesses the �child� > share via �X:\child� and creates a new file or directory, > the new file/directory permissions are set to: > > -rwxr--r-- otto users or drwxr-xr-x otto users > > This agrees with the Samba default �create mode 755� but is not not what > we expect considering the > �create mode� and �force create mode� settings of the �child� share.
But it is what we expect via access using the parent share. When access is via one share, settings on other shares are ignored - no matter if they map to the same directory. To behave otherwise would be chaos I'm afraid. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
