Hi everyone, So I'm trying to copy files from a windows share to a samba share. I'm using robocopy to mirror file files a permissions, but I've recently hit a little problem with the interaction of permissions, and I'm not sure how to fix it. What's happening is that after a file is copied, it's permissions are updated. What I end up with is Domain Users (the default group) is assigned to the file with no permissions, and the builtin Users group is assigned, via ACLs, with full permissions. Of course, the problem is that the builtin Users group actually contains the Domain Users group, so I end up with a case of Domain Users being unable to access the file. Now, in an ideal world, unix filesystems would implement ACLs in a way that isn't a kludgey bolt-on feature, but since it is, I'd like samba to help me work around it and set the unix group to something which will then be ignored when reporting file permissions back to Windows. I thought that I found this feature in the force group command, but I was wrong. Force group sounds exactly like what I want. I want samba to assign a default group, e.g. "root", to all of my files, and then add and modify additional groups via the ACL system. This would prevent the wackiness I'm seeing, and get ACLs working properly. However, what ends up happening in this case is that the file is created as me, with the default group set to "root" (yay!), then the permissions are "fixed", and the owner is set to "root" and the group is set to "Domain Users". This seems a bit strange to me because "Domain Users" is not mentioned in the Windows ACLs at all, so it makes me wonder: a) Why is the group being set to "Domain Users" at all? b) Why isn't the group still forced to "root" as I asked? One option I've considered is messing with the various mode bits. I could, for example, ensure that the default group always had full permissions (or at least read-only permissions), but that changes the problem because now I am granting permissions where there were none before. I'm using samba version 3.6.3, on Ubuntu 12.04. Here is my config: =====================[global] log level = 3 server string = samba netbios name = samba interfaces = 10.0.0.36 security = ads realm = DOMAIN.COM workgroup = DOMAIN # I want to see the domain name as part of the user name: winbind use default domain = no winbind separator = + # From here we configure the idmaps idmap config * : backend = tdb idmap config * : range = 5000-6000 idmap config DOMAIN: default = yes idmap config DOMAIN: backend = rid idmap config DOMAIN: range = 100000-2000000000 winbind enum users = yes winbind enum groups = yes winbind nested groups = Yes # how many nested groups to traverse: winbind expand groups = 10 client use spnego = yes encrypt passwords = true restrict anonymous = 2 # Windows doesn't have this restriction, so neigther do we: hide dot files = no # Use extended ACL attributes to store windows permissions: vfs objects = acl_xattr ea support = yes map acl inherit = yes store dos attributes = yes map hidden = no map system = no map archive = no map readonly = no # Just to be safe: invalid users = root # Reccommended for ADS security mode: #name resolve order = wins bcast template homedir = /srv/Homes/%D/%U template shell = /bin/false unix extensions = no # Allocate file blocks at creation time (no sparse files), helps # with quotas. strict allocate = yes allocation roundup size = 1024 [Share] path = /srv/Share writable = yes admin users = DOMAIN+mike #force group = root #force directory security mode = 0070 ===================== Please let me know if I can provide more information. Thanks, Mike (: -- --------Mike at PirateHaven.org-----------------------The_glass_is_too_big--------