samba - Mar 2003 - Changing unix group ownership through Samba

Hi everyone,

First of all, sorry if this is something which the man pages or other
documentation answer. I could not find a simple solution.

I am running 3.0alpha22 on Linux joined to a W2k domain with a Windows
2000 Server domain controller. Authentication is done with Kerberos,
clients are 2000/XP.

I want to be able to change the unix group ownership on directories and
files from the Windows 2000/XP clients connecting to Samba. That is, if a
directory is owned by the unix group unixgroup1 on the machine Samba is
running on, I want to be able to change it to unixgroup2 from the client.
What is the simplest way to do this? Somehow mapping all unix groups to
Windows-world groups? Do I need winbindd in there somewhere?

Any help is much appreciated!

Best regards,
Antti


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Antti.Tikkanen@hut.fi
Helsinki University of Technology
Computing Centre

Antti,
> I want to be able to change the unix group ownership on directories
> and files from the Windows 2000/XP clients connecting to Samba. That
> is, if a directory is owned by the unix group unixgroup1 on the
> machine Samba is running on, I want to be able to change it to
> unixgroup2 from the client. What is the simplest way to do this?
You may want to have a look at ACLs, included in recent versions of the
journallimg filesystems XFS, JFS, ext3 and ReiserFS. SuSE and probably
RedHat also (?) should by default have ACL aware kernels. I'd personally
recommend XFS but your mileage may vary.
See
http://acl.bestbits.at/
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs

Good luck,
Uli