samba - Mar 2022 - Unable to write to a share that I should have access to

On Mon, 2022-03-07 at 14:21 -0500, Rob Campbell via samba
wrote:
> Following
>
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_a_Share_Using_POSIX_ACLs#Setting_Standard_UNIX_ACLs
> 
> # chmod 2770 /srv/samba/Demo/
> # chown root:"Domain Users" /srv/samba/Demo/
> 
> When I try this, I get an error message
> $ chown testuser:"Media Users" TV_Shows/
> chown: invalid user: ?testuser:Media Users?
> 
> samba-tool user show testuser
> dn: CN=Test User,CN=Users,DC=home,DC=test-server,DC=lan
Yes, but does <getent passwd testuser> and <getent group 'Media
Users'>
produce output ?

Rowland

On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 2:29 PM Rowland Penny via samba <
samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-03-07 at 14:21 -0500, Rob Campbell via samba wrote:
> > Following
> >
>
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_a_Share_Using_POSIX_ACLs#Setting_Standard_UNIX_ACLs
> >
> > # chmod 2770 /srv/samba/Demo/
> > # chown root:"Domain Users" /srv/samba/Demo/
> >
> > When I try this, I get an error message
> > $ chown testuser:"Media Users" TV_Shows/
> > chown: invalid user: ?testuser:Media Users?
> >
> > samba-tool user show testuser
> > dn: CN=Test User,CN=Users,DC=home,DC=test-server,DC=lan
>
> Yes, but does <getent passwd testuser> and <getent group
'Media Users'>
> produce output ?
>
> It does not.  So I guess I should figure out why.  getent hosts hostname
> worked but obviously that has nothing to do with users and groups.
>
>
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