samba - May 2023 - Difference between share access from Windows and Linux

Hi All,

I have a - maybe dumb - question:

What is the difference between an access to a Samba share from Linux and 
from Windows?

Is there a difference in protocol or getting share rights or anything 
else? I think I remember that there is.

Maybe someone can push into the direction of a documentation.

Base for this question is a ticket I have open with Synology. There is 
in newer versions of the SMBService (their version of Samba) a problem 
with getting access rights to shares through groups. Only with Windows 
workstations, not from Linux workstations.

I found out with changing a Library from an older Version it works 
again, but they couldn't second it, because they still test from Linux.

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Regards
Ingo
https://github.com/WAdama

On 24/05/2023 08:36, Ingo Asche via samba wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a - maybe dumb - question:
> 
> What is the difference between an access to a Samba share from Linux and 
> from Windows?
> 
> Is there a difference in protocol or getting share rights or anything 
> else? I think I remember that there is.
> 
> Maybe someone can push into the direction of a documentation.
> 
> Base for this question is a ticket I have open with Synology. There is 
> in newer versions of the SMBService (their version of Samba) a problem 
> with getting access rights to shares through groups. Only with Windows 
> workstations, not from Linux workstations.
> 
> I found out with changing a Library from an older Version it works 
> again, but they couldn't second it, because they still test from Linux.
> 
Samba is the Linux attempt to emulate the SMB protocol and as such, it 
shouldn't matter what you access a Samba share from, they should all 
work the same.

However, as you seem to be aware, synology samba != Samba. They take 
Samba (an older version at that) and mangle it for their own uses. So if 
you can connect to a Samba share correctly from Linux, Windows or 
anything but synology, then that looks very like a synology problem and 
they will be the only people who will be able to fix it.

Rowland