samba - Sep 2013 - Force user doesn't work

I am using Samba 3.6.6 on Debian Wheezy. 

I want to be able to change www files on my dev server using my macbook. 
So I setup samba and made a share for the /var/www directory. 

I added the users bart & root to samba to connect. And connect using command
K and then smb://192.168.2.100 (my samba server).

As apache uses www-data as a user and group for the www files I use force user
and force group in samba to prevent errors in the rights.

However it does force the group www-data, but doesn't force the user. Every
file I create is being owned by root in the group www-data.


To seek for errors I tailed the logs in /var/log/samba and only found an error
in the log.smbd when restarting the samba service. See the log here:

smbd version 3.6.6 started. 
Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2011 
[2013/09/23 11:14:22.601031, 0] printing/print_cups.c:110(cups_connect) 
Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost:631 - Connection refused 
[2013/09/23 11:14:22.602215, 0] printing/print_cups.c:487(cups_async_callback) 
failed to retrieve printer list: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL 


And here is my smb.conf: 

[global] 
server string = %h server 
map to guest = Bad User 
obey pam restrictions = Yes 
pam password change = Yes 
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u 
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n
*password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
unix password sync = Yes 
syslog = 0 
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m 
max log size = 1000 
dns proxy = No 
usershare allow guests = Yes 
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d 
idmap config * : backend = tdb 

[homes] 
comment = Home Directories 
valid users = %S 
create mask = 0700 
directory mask = 0700 
browseable = No 

[printers] 
comment = All Printers 
path = /var/spool/samba 
create mask = 0700 
printable = Yes 
print ok = Yes 
browseable = No 

[print$] 
comment = Printer Drivers 
path = /var/lib/samba/printers 

[www] 
comment = www 
path = /var/www/ 
valid users = bart, root 
admin users = bart, root 
write list = bart, root 
force user = www-data 
force group = www-data 
read only = No 


I even tried adding www-data to the valid users as well as the admin users and
the write list. This did not have any effect.

Can you help me out? Thanks in advance!

On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 11:45 +0200, Bart-Jan van Hummel
wrote:
> I am using Samba 3.6.6 on Debian Wheezy. 
> 
> I want to be able to change www files on my dev server using my macbook.
That is your problem right there. The MacOS X smb client does not
generally respect force user/group parameters when Unix extensions are
present.

Simplest solution is to put "unix extensions = no" in your smb.conf
and
restart Samba. Though this requires that you don't rely on them
elsewhere.


JAB.

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Jonathan A. Buzzard                 Email: jonathan (at) buzzard.me.uk
Fife, United Kingdom.

On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 16:20 Jonathan Buzzard wrote: 
> Simplest solution is to put "unix extensions = no" in your
smb.conf and
> restart Samba. Though this requires that you don't rely on them 
> elsewhere. 
Thanks I will do that just to be sure. 
Just now I found another solution as well: 
Removing the admin users also works, this used to work fine on older versions of
Samba,
on this version (and I take it on newer versions as well) this needs te be
removed.