Hi Paul, You probably want to ensure you have EXT3 ACL support on your server, if it isn't already.. not sure if Redhate Enterprise supports this out of the box.
I've found that editing permissions from a Windows NT 4.0 box leads to acls being set incorrectly on Samba - use win2k or higher. You probably also want to chown the directories to root, as once the users specified in the 'admin users' directive in smb.conf authenticate to the server they will be mapped in as root (you can see this when you ps aux |grep smbd). I've found the best way to start permissions wise is with owner root:root and permissions 0777 on the directory, and from the ACL editor in Windows restrict permissions that way. Hope this helps Tom -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of PaulD Sent: Thursday, 26 August 2004 11:06 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Samba] file permissions head-ache on Samba V3.0.4 Hi, I hope that this is a quick answer, as it's probably been answered many times before and I'm just missing a very minor setting in my config. I have just setup a samba server(ver 3.0.4) on a Redhat Enterprise Linux Box ES3. The box has been setup as a member of a Windows NT4 domain, it's to be used as a fileserver for users on the NT domain. I have configured samba to use domain security, and have winbind working correctly (I think!!) - I can get the domain users and groups to show from a 'wbinfo -u or wbinfo -g. I have been trying (unsucessfully) to configure the /home directory so that the domain admins here can manage the subfolders and the permissions, from the server administrator or management console on their NT / 2000 workstations. I have used the following commands on the /home volume so that the domain admins/users can have access to the volume: chown DOMAIN+Administrator /home chgrp "DOMAIN+Domain Users" /home (both commands threw back no errors) I'm guessing that the problem may down to the smb.conf file but I'm not sure what I'm missing.. would be grateful if someone could assist. TIA ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba