samba - Mar 2013 - Samba4 smb.conf parse shares diffently depending on where a section is located.

I guess this works as intended but i wanted to put it here anyhow for
future reference for others.

If a share definition is located above [Global] it gets totally different
attributes. We had enormous problems with rights on one share and no matter
what we did to acl, xattr and Windows permissions it just would not work
correctly. A couple of things added to a definition above [Global] is:

        create mask = 0744
directory mask = 0755
map archive = Yes
map readonly = yes
store dos attributes = No
vfs objects 
Putting the share below the [Global] section solved everything anyhow.

Daniel Hedblom

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:53:16PM +0100, Daniel Hedblom
wrote:
> I guess this works as intended but i wanted to put it here anyhow for
> future reference for others.
> 
> If a share definition is located above [Global] it gets totally different
> attributes. We had enormous problems with rights on one share and no matter
> what we did to acl, xattr and Windows permissions it just would not work
> correctly. A couple of things added to a definition above [Global] is:
> 
>         create mask = 0744
> directory mask = 0755
> map archive = Yes
> map readonly = yes
> store dos attributes = No
> vfs objects > 
> Putting the share below the [Global] section solved everything anyhow.
Yeah, that's just an side effect of the parsing being
linear. More of a "well don't do that then" kind of a
thing really. Not worth the large effort needed in
changing the code.

Jeremy.