samba - Apr 2007 - Group Policy install MSI from Samba share

I have a Windows 2000 Active Directory domain and I need to create a
group policy to assign an msi install to a computer.  This has always
worked fine on a Windows share, but now the install fails after moving
to a Samba file server.  I'm guessing it's some sort of permissions
issue.  Does anyone know how to make this work?

 

James Dinkel

Network Engineer

Butler County of Kansas

 

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I'm assigning this to the Computer Accounts, not publishing to
groups/users.  The only thing I could think of was to give permission to
the Domain Computers group, but that does not work.

James Dinkel

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Samson
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 2:32 AM

Is you samba server using the ldap database on the domain controller
for authentication? This sounds like an authentication problem. Try
telling samba to inherit the permissions of the directory that the MSI
file lives in. Then simply change the owner or group owner of that
directory and file to the group you wish it to apply to. Do this use
chmod and chown in konsole or alternatively right click the file (in
your linux/unix variant) and go to permissions.

Daniel

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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "James A. Dinkel" <jdinkel@bucoks.com>
> To: <samba@lists.samba.org>
> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:47:45 -0500
> Subject: RE: [Samba] Group Policy install MSI from Samba share
> I'm assigning this to the Computer Accounts, not publishing to
> groups/users.  The only thing I could think of was to give permission to
> the Domain Computers group, but that does not work.
>
> James Dinkel
>
We post our .msi files on our samba share without any problems getting them
to install through GPO. In the smb.conf, we list domain computers as being a
valid user. We have also set the acl on the directory to give domain
computers r-x. Yes, we are using extended acls on our reiserfs partition.

Check both places.
Good luck
Steve