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Hi, Firstly I want to declare I am a newbie to Samba. I am installing samba over Redhat 8.0 I need to know whether Samba can replace my NT4 PDC in the following aspects and how to do it:- 1. ACLs. Must i create the every user name in Samba as in the NT4 PDC? How do I create groups like "Protocol Stack" with space in between the groupname? (Making sure that the ACls are mapped

Hello I have samba (2.2.7a) shares on linux (rh 7 & 9) servers with posix-acl (both kernel (2.4.19/ext2 and 2.4.20/xfs) and samba enabled) and an nt 4 PDC. works fine except that I can't change acl of a file/dir if i'm not the owner, thought i'm in a group that has write access to the file/dir I set the "dos filemode = yes" as told in "man smb.conf", but it

Hi, I got 2 problems :- 1. I was compiling samba-2.2.7-4.src.rpm on Redhat 8.0 system and with the option --with-pam_smbpass. It always fail when I am doing a rpmbuild -ba samba.specs. The error is similar to the person who posted on http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba-technical/2002-September/039415.html but no one answered him. I was also compiling with the following extra options:-

Hi, The following is done on a samba share:- When I want to hide files in on the Windows interface, I right-click the file and check on the hidden attribute, but the file still appears there. Must I rename the file with a dot in front in order to hide it? Any alternative to allow the use of Windows interface to hide it? Thanks. adrian