Hi.. I'm having trouble getting to grips with NTFS ACLs in samba (2.2.3a-12.3 pkg for Debian) I've set up a samba server with the usual homes and share drives &c. Windows 98 clients are no problem. But the win 2k boxes are a different kettle of things. I was puzzled as to why one user would get another user's home share mounted on H: when i could find nothing in the 2k user profile that would override the samba settings. I've narrowed it down to an odd set of security permissions being applied to files on the server. Basically it seems to be entirely random as to who gets ownership of a file/folder in the 2k file properties security tab. So for eg I find Fred owns Joe's home directory and when Joe logs on he gets Fred's home mounted instead of his own. I've also noticed things (again in the 2k permissions dialog) like names listed as "<Fred Bloggs> DOMAIN\jsmith" ie the server user name and user's full name are different. Removing Fred from the permissions and having Joe 'take ownership' in 2k doesn't work either, Fred's right back there when i open the dialog again. Something is up with the defaults set by samba, i'm sure, but i don't know what. there doesn't seem to be much info out there on how to manage NT ACLs from the samba end (because plainly doing anything on the client machine isn't working). I have tried running smbcacls but it's asking me for a password but there is no clue as to who's password it wants and i've tried 'em all. :) any info or pointers to howtos would be much appreciated... cheers, ..S. -------------- next part -------------- Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf Processing section "[homes]" {omitted} Loaded services file OK. WARNING: You have some share names that are longer than 8 chars These may give errors while browsing or may not be accessible to some older clients Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions # Global parameters [global] coding system = client code page = 850 code page directory = /usr/share/samba/codepages workgroup = BLEACH netbios name = DOLCE netbios aliases = netbios scope = server string = Bleach File Server interfaces = bind interfaces only = No security = USER encrypt passwords = Yes update encrypted = No allow trusted domains = No hosts equiv = min passwd length = 5 map to guest = Never null passwords = No obey pam restrictions = No password server = smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd root directory = pam password change = No passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n . passwd chat debug = No username map = password level = 0 username level = 0 unix password sync = Yes restrict anonymous = No lanman auth = Yes use rhosts = No log level = 2 syslog = 1 syslog only = No log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 5000 timestamp logs = Yes debug hires timestamp = No debug pid = No debug uid = No protocol = NT1 large readwrite = No max protocol = NT1 min protocol = CORE read bmpx = No read raw = Yes write raw = Yes nt smb support = Yes nt pipe support = Yes announce version = 4.5 announce as = NT max mux = 50 max xmit = 65535 name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast max packet = 65535 max ttl = 259200 max wins ttl = 518400 min wins ttl = 21600 time server = No unix extensions = No change notify timeout = 60 deadtime = 0 getwd cache = Yes keepalive = 300 lpq cache time = 10 max smbd processes = 0 max disk size = 0 max open files = 10000 read size = 16384 socket options = TCP_NODELAY stat cache size = 50 use mmap = Yes total print jobs = 0 load printers = Yes printcap name = /etc/printcap disable spoolss = No enumports command = addprinter command = deleteprinter command = show add printer wizard = Yes os2 driver map = strip dot = No character set = mangled stack = 50 stat cache = Yes domain admin group = domain guest group = machine password timeout = 604800 add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g machines -c 'Machine Account' -s /bin/false -M %u delete user script = logon script = %U.bat logon path = \\%N\%U\profile logon drive = H: logon home = \\%N\%U domain logons = Yes os level = 20 lm announce = Auto lm interval = 60 preferred master = Auto local master = Yes domain master = Auto browse list = Yes enhanced browsing = No dns proxy = No wins proxy = No wins server = wins support = Yes wins hook = kernel oplocks = Yes oplock break wait time = 0 add share command = change share command = delete share command = config file = preload = lock dir = utmp directory = wtmp directory = utmp = No default service = message command = dfree command = valid chars = remote announce = remote browse sync = socket address = 0.0.0.0 homedir map = time offset = 0 NIS homedir = No source environment = panic action = hide local users = No host msdfs = No winbind uid = winbind gid = template homedir = /home/%D/%U template shell = /bin/false winbind separator = \ winbind cache time = 15 winbind enum users = Yes winbind enum groups = Yes comment = path = alternate permissions = No username = guest account = nobody invalid users = valid users = admin users = read list = write list = printer admin = force user = force group = read only = 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 inherit permissions = No guest only = No guest ok = No only user = No hosts allow = 192.168.1. hosts deny = status = Yes nt acl support = Yes max connections = 0 min print space = 0 strict allocate = No strict sync = No sync always = No write cache size = 0 max print jobs = 1000 printable = No postscript = No printing = bsd 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 = No printer driver = printer driver file = /etc/samba/printers.def printer driver location = default case = lower case sensitive = No preserve case = Yes short preserve case = Yes mangle case = No mangling char = ~ hide dot files = Yes hide unreadable = No delete veto files = No veto files = hide files = Network Trash Folder/TheVolumeSettingsFolder veto oplock files = map system = No map hidden = No map archive = Yes mangled names = Yes mangled map = browseable = Yes blocking locks = Yes fake oplocks = No locking = Yes oplocks = Yes level2 oplocks = Yes oplock contention limit = 2 posix locking = Yes strict locking = No share modes = Yes copy = include = exec = preexec close = No postexec = root preexec = root preexec close = No root postexec = available = Yes volume = fstype = NTFS set directory = No wide links = Yes follow symlinks = Yes dont descend = magic script = magic output = delete readonly = No dos filemode = No dos filetimes = No dos filetime resolution = No fake directory create times = No vfs object = vfs options = msdfs root = No [homes] comment = Home Directories path = /home/%u valid users = @bleach read only = No create mask = 0700 directory mask = 0700 {omitted}