Rowland Penny
2023-May-24 07:50 UTC
[Samba] Difference between share access from Windows and Linux
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
Ingo Asche
2023-May-24 08:51 UTC
[Samba] Difference between share access from Windows and Linux
Hi Rowland, thanks for the answer... I'm totally with you, the problem lies with Synology. Just wanted to be sure. As you may have read in my other mail today directed more to Travis, I could create a workaround through changing a library to an older one. The name libidmap-samba4.so indicates it has something to with the id mapping. Any thoughts from your knowledge and experience why there is something different between Windows and Linux workstations? Maybe you have a helpful hint. I'm just hoping for some munition against Synology, as I'm no developer myself. They test every time from Linux and say there's no problem. Of course there's no problem, because it happens only from Windows. Regards Ingo https://github.com/WAdama Rowland Penny via samba schrieb am 24.05.2023 um 09:50:> > > 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 > >