Hi Is there a way of getting samba to use the passwd file entries when utilising POSIX extended acls. I have two groups of users 1) A vast amount of users who access filestore via windows only. In this case I winbind and idmap to assign random UNIX uids as is normal. 2) I also have a much smaller group of users who use NFS and CIFS to access the same area. In this case I put an entry in the password file on the samba server to set the uid to a particular value so that samba may write files with that uid. This means that a NFS client may also access those files provided it has an appropriate user setup. All this works very well. However I was going to use POSIX extended ACLs to facilitate sharing but the samba side seems not to work the way I had hoped. For example an linux user, user-A (uid 1234) may set an acl on a directory for user-B (uid 12345) so that he may access it, and this works with NFS (version3) . It seems however that samba does not use the entries in the passwd file to map uids when it comes to extended acls and always maps it to a random uid via winbind. The symptom of this is that a user via samba writes files with uid 1234 but cannot access a file produced from an NFS client with an acl giving read/write permission to uid 1234. It also works this way when setting acls via samba - acls are always assigned using the random uid not the uid as defined in the password file which means that users on NFS clients cannot read files they should. My setup is clustered samba 3.5.8 using ctdb and GPFS 3.3 as the parallel filesystem. testparm -v is below. nsswitch.conf does not point to winbind. Does anyone have any pointers. Am I missing something simple? Thanks Bob [global] dos charset = CP850 unix charset = UTF-8 display charset = LOCALE workgroup =******************** realm =************************** netbios name = ************************ netbios aliases netbios scope server string = Samba 3.5.8 interfaces bind interfaces only = No security = ADS auth methods encrypt passwords = Yes update encrypted = No client schannel = Auto server schannel = Auto allow trusted domains = Yes map to guest = Bad User null passwords = No obey pam restrictions = No password server = ********************* smb passwd file = /usr/local/samba-3.5.8/private/smbpasswd private dir = /RDSF_REPL/gpfs_admin/cifs_state/ passdb backend = tdbsam algorithmic rid base = 1000 root directory guest account = nobody enable privileges = Yes pam password change = No passwd program passwd chat = *new*password* %n\n *new*password* %n\n *changed* passwd chat debug = No passwd chat timeout = 2 check password script username map password level = 0 username level = 0 unix password sync = No restrict anonymous = 2 lanman auth = No ntlm auth = Yes client NTLMv2 auth = Yes client lanman auth = No client plaintext auth = No preload modules dedicated keytab file kerberos method = default map untrusted to domain = No log level = 1 acls:10 idmap:10 syslog = 1 syslog only = Yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 5000 debug timestamp = Yes debug prefix timestamp = No debug hires timestamp = Yes debug pid = No debug uid = No debug class = No enable core files = Yes smb ports = 445 139 large readwrite = Yes max protocol = NT1 min protocol = CORE min receivefile size = 0 read raw = Yes write raw = Yes disable netbios = No reset on zero vc = No acl compatibility = auto defer sharing violations = Yes nt pipe support = Yes nt status support = Yes announce version = 4.9 announce as = NT max mux = 50 max xmit = 16644 name resolve order = lmhosts wins host bcast max ttl = 259200 max wins ttl = 518400 min wins ttl = 21600 time server = No unix extensions = Yes use spnego = Yes client signing = auto server signing = No client use spnego = Yes client ldap sasl wrapping = plain enable asu support = No svcctl list deadtime = 0 getwd cache = Yes keepalive = 300 lpq cache time = 30 max smbd processes = 0 paranoid server security = Yes max disk size = 0 max open files = 16384 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 use mmap = Yes hostname lookups = No name cache timeout = 660 ctdbd socket cluster addresses clustering = Yes ctdb timeout = 0 load printers = Yes printcap cache time = 750 printcap name cups server cups encrypt = No cups connection timeout = 30 iprint server disable spoolss = No addport command enumports command addprinter command deleteprinter command show add printer wizard = Yes os2 driver map mangling method = hash2 mangle prefix = 1 max stat cache size = 256 stat cache = Yes machine password timeout = 604800 add user script rename user script delete user script add group script delete group script add user to group script delete user from group script set primary group script add machine script shutdown script abort shutdown script username map script logon script logon path = \\%N\%U\profile logon drive logon home = \\%N\%U domain logons = No init logon delayed hosts init logon delay = 100 os level = 20 lm announce = Auto lm interval = 60 preferred master = No local master = Yes domain master = Auto browse list = Yes enhanced browsing = Yes dns proxy = Yes wins proxy = No wins server wins support = No wins hook kernel oplocks = Yes lock spin time = 200 oplock break wait time = 0 ldap admin dn ldap delete dn = No ldap group suffix ldap idmap suffix ldap machine suffix ldap passwd sync = no ldap replication sleep = 1000 ldap suffix ldap ssl = start tls ldap ssl ads = No ldap deref = auto ldap follow referral = Auto ldap timeout = 15 ldap connection timeout = 2 ldap page size = 1024 ldap user suffix ldap debug level = 0 ldap debug threshold = 10 eventlog list add share command change share command delete share command preload lock directory = /usr/local/samba-3.5.8/var/locks state directory = /usr/local/samba-3.5.8/var/locks cache directory = /usr/local/samba-3.5.8/var/locks pid directory = /usr/local/samba-3.5.8/var/locks utmp directory wtmp directory utmp = No default service message command get quota command set quota command remote announce remote browse sync socket address = 0.0.0.0 nmbd bind explicit broadcast = Yes homedir map afs username map afs token lifetime = 604800 log nt token command time offset = 0 NIS homedir = No registry shares = No usershare allow guests = No usershare max shares = 0 usershare owner only = Yes usershare path = /usr/local/samba-3.5.8/var/locks/usershares usershare prefix allow list usershare prefix deny list usershare template share panic action perfcount module host msdfs = Yes passdb expand explicit = No idmap backend = tdb2 idmap alloc backend idmap cache time = 604800 idmap negative cache time = 120 idmap uid = 100000-200000 idmap gid = 100000-200000 template homedir = /home/%D/%U template shell = /bin/false winbind separator = \ winbind cache time = 300 winbind reconnect delay = 30 winbind enum users = Yes winbind enum groups = Yes winbind use default domain = Yes winbind trusted domains only = No winbind nested groups = Yes winbind expand groups = 1 winbind nss info = template winbind refresh tickets = Yes winbind offline logon = No winbind normalize names = No winbind rpc only = Yes create krb5 conf = Yes nfs4: acedup = merge nfs4: chown = yes nfs4: mode = special gpfs:winattr = No gpfs:sharemodes = No fileid:mapping = fsname comment path username invalid users valid users admin users read list write list printer admin force user force group read only = Yes acl check permissions = Yes acl group control = No acl map full control = Yes create mask = 0744 force create mode = 00 security mask = 0777 force security mode = 00 directory mask = 0755 force directory mode = 00 directory security mask = 0777 force directory security mode = 00 force unknown acl user = Yes inherit permissions = No inherit acls = No inherit owner = No guest only = No administrative share = No guest ok = No only user = No hosts allow hosts deny allocation roundup size = 1048576 aio read size = 0 aio write size = 0 aio write behind ea support = No nt acl support = Yes profile acls = No map acl inherit = No afs share = No smb encrypt = auto block size = 1024 change notify = Yes directory name cache size = 100 kernel change notify = Yes max connections = 0 min print space = 0 strict allocate = No strict sync = No sync always = No use sendfile = No write cache size = 0 max reported print jobs = 0 max print jobs = 1000 printable = No printing = bsd cups options print command = lpr -r -P'%p' %s lpq command = lpq -P'%p' lprm command = lprm -P'%p' %j lppause command lpresume command queuepause command queueresume command printer name use client driver = No default devmode = Yes force printername = No printjob username = %U default case = lower case sensitive = Auto preserve case = Yes short preserve case = Yes mangling char = ~ hide dot files = Yes hide special files = No hide unreadable = No hide unwriteable files = No delete veto files = No veto files hide files veto oplock files map archive = Yes map hidden = No map system = No map readonly = yes mangled names = Yes store dos attributes = No dmapi support = No browseable = Yes access based share enum = No blocking locks = Yes csc policy = manual fake oplocks = No locking = Yes oplocks = Yes level2 oplocks = Yes oplock contention limit = 2 posix locking = Yes strict locking = Auto share modes = Yes dfree cache time = 0 dfree command copy preexec preexec close = No postexec root preexec root preexec close = No root postexec available = Yes volume fstype = NTFS set directory = No wide links = No follow symlinks = Yes dont descend magic script magic output delete readonly = No dos filemode = No dos filetimes = Yes dos filetime resolution = No fake directory create times = No vfs objects = gpfs, fileid msdfs root = No msdfs proxy [ACRC] comment = ACRC Space for use and testing path = ************************* valid users = *************************** read only = No inherit acls = Yes hosts allow = **************** nfs4: acedup = merge nfs4: chown = yes nfs4: mode = special gpfs:winattr = No -- Bob Cregan Senior Storage Systems Administrator ACRC Bristol University Tel: +44 (0) 117 331 4421 Mobile: +44 (0) 7712388129