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Hi! I've got an old samba installation, now thanks to you all - successfully upgraded to ubuntu 16.04. Samba is the packaged version 4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.6. The problem I have is that for some users their profiles do not sync properly. They seem to upload onto the server, and then at the next logon some files that were deleted by the user come back. It is more per user basis or per

...thenticate and for this reason never used to access a remote file system" "For this reasons, you can omit the SYSTEM account in file system ACLs on Samba shares." Now this is not ok in my believe. And the funny part, first reference link. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/120929/how-the-system-account-is-used-in-windows Which states : . On the other hand, the system account does show up on an NTFS volume in File Manager in the Permissions portion of the Security menu. By default, the system account is granted full control to all files on an NTFS volume. And ... &g...

On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 07:30:03 +0100 Marc Muehlfeld via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote: > > On Windows, the SYSTEM account is used by services on the local host > (in your case, the local host is your Samba server). For example, > virus scanners might use it to get access to all files. However, > there is nothing on your Samba server that uses the SYSTEM account. >

...should be able to access _local_ files. Here's a nice explanation of the SYSTEM account: https://abhijitw.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/the-local-system-account/ See also: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms684190%28v=vs.85%29.aspx https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/120929/how-the-system-account-is-used-in-windows Regards, Marc

...> > Here's a nice explanation of the SYSTEM account: > https://abhijitw.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/the-local-system-account/ > > See also: > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en- > us/library/windows/desktop/ms684190%28v=vs.85%29.aspx > https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/120929/how-the-system-account-is- > used-in-windows > > > Regards, > Marc