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>From a linux box, I mount a native NT share (mount -t smbfs -o<options, etc. etc>). I want to be able to do an 'ls -l' in that share and have the owner/group information show the right thing. Currently, no matter what the ACLs on the file on the NT side, from linux, an 'ls -l' shows 'root' as the owner/group. I was expecting winbind to work similar to ypbind in

I'm trying to understand the python binding api in the samba-3.0alpha24 snapshot. In trying to get the security descriptor of a file, I have the following bit of code: from samba import smb creds = {...} # domain,username,password cnn = smb.connect("svr1") cnn.session_request("svr1") cnn.negprot() cnn.session_setup(creds) cnn.tconx("c$") fnum =

It's unclear to me in the case where I'm only interested in using samba as a client to mount remote volumes *and* I need to use a WINS server for name resolution, if I just have to set values for wins server name resolve order in the smb.conf file or if nmbd is also required to be running. My understanding is that nmbd provides browsing support; but assume I already know the servers and