We recently migrated a Win2K PDC to Samba-3.0.2rc1-1 and it works just fine (mainly). Still, there is a question that bugs me a lot: can Samba work with NT style permissions, on directory level, NOT share level? Linux filesystems can work with 3 entities for permissions, right? User, Group, All - RWX. NT can have multiple permissions (anycase, more than 3) on each directory or file, but Samba works with only 3, mentioned above. What if I want to give the 4th user permission on a file? As a hint, mapping groups GID <-> SID can help solving the problem I just mentioned? I know that I can define permissions for as many users/groups I want in smb.conf, but these permissions are only set for a particular share. Hope I made myself clear...and I also hope I'll get at least a hint :) TIA, Arthur
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 18:38:52 +0200 "Arthur Kerpician" <arthur@bluechip.ro> wrote:> What if I want to give > the 4th user permission on a file?You will have to (re)compile your kernel with your filesystem's (be it ext3, reiserfs, xfs or whatever) POSIX acl support. You can the necessary userspace tools and find patches for the 2.4.x kernels at: http://acl.bestbits.at 2.6.x includes support POSIX acls without patching, this must be configured at compile time. You will still need the userspace tools (found at the address above) and a patched version of coreutils (there are binaries available) to manipulate the acl perm sets. With acl's you can place fine-grained permission sets (more than one user/group) on files and directories. Hope this helps. Michael Brown -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAP71hyEfMczxaHdsRArHNAJ9Tio/q9iTVVOY56zcH0agFYu9lgACeL2Nm l/PI4lav7wKLhtmM4QrcXnA=FjwR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----