[Samba] Another Samba+ACLs thread

Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima
Wed, 27 Nov 2002 02:26:59 -0000

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Andrew Furey wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm having trouble making Samba recognise ACLs properly - a W2k client
> isn't using them fully.
>
> I have patched the kernel, recompiled Samba, etc. I've gotten it
working
>   to the point where the kernel-side of things seems to work fine (with
> getfacl, etc). Also, the W2k machine (via Samba) can see the ACL
> settings that are applied to a file.
>
> The problem arises when I try to change them from W2k. It silently fails
> (from 2k's point of view), but in the log files I see something like
> "unable to map SID [blah] to uid or gid". All my Googling simply
> suggests that ACLs are not installed at all, which appears to be false...

Is the win2k user the owner (in the unix sense) of the file. ?

Even though you have ACL's only the owner or root can actually change them.

Yours Tony

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