samba - Jan 2024 - can't connect outside home directory

01.01.2024 17:53, Rowland Penny via samba :
>> ntfs filesystem works just fine on linux with samba.
> 
> Possibly, if you use vfs_acl_xattr and set the permissions from Windows
> and only want to read the data from Linux, otherwise, on a standalone
> server, it doesn't work.
There are multiple ways to make it work, not only acl_xattrs.

But all this has nothing to do with *connecting* to a share, which
was the original question.

/mjt

On Mon, 1 Jan 2024 18:03:58 +0300
Michael Tokarev via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 01.01.2024 17:53, Rowland Penny via samba :
> >> ntfs filesystem works just fine on linux with samba.
> > 
> > Possibly, if you use vfs_acl_xattr and set the permissions from
> > Windows and only want to read the data from Linux, otherwise, on a
> > standalone server, it doesn't work.
> 
> There are multiple ways to make it work, not only acl_xattrs.
> 
> But all this has nothing to do with *connecting* to a share, which
> was the original question.
> 
Ah, but it does, if you cannot set Unix permissions on the share
directory (and chown & chmod cannot on NTFS) then the Unix user will be
denied access.

Rowland