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hello I'm having the following problem: On a share I have a user with read-only access to word files. Another user has read-write access to these files. When the user with read-only access opens a word file and then the user with read-write access to these files opens the file, the read-write user has only read-only access. If the read-write user opens the word file first, then he has

I have a Windows 2000 Active Directory domain and I need to create a group policy to assign an msi install to a computer. This has always worked fine on a Windows share, but now the install fails after moving to a Samba file server. I'm guessing it's some sort of permissions issue. Does anyone know how to make this work? James Dinkel Network Engineer Butler County of Kansas

We are running a fileserver (Samba version 3.0.10-1.4E.9) on CentOS 4.4. No AD, clients are Windows XP and OS X. Linux acl's are used for access to directories and files. Each top-level folder belongs to a primary group with mode 2770. The acl's restrict access to lower level directories. We need to pass the acl's down the directory tree or else users may have unexpected access to

Here's the situation: We have users who are members of groups and those groups are sometimes members of a 2nd level of groups. If a folder has permissions assigned to a 2nd level group, then the user can not access the share. Doing a "getent group | grep user | grep 2nd_level_group" also returns nothing. Samba seems to not be recognizing that a user is a member of a group under

I'm trying to decide on a linux distro to use for our enterprise Samba server. I like that there is a deb repo for Debian from samba.org, but I'm more comfortable with CentOS (Redhat). I just want to be sure I have a well supported Samba server and I need at least the 3.0.20 version so I can use the "inherit owner" property. I also want automatic updates for bugfixes and

This is actually replying to an email I found in the list archives from 4 years ago, but I had this same problem and could not find an answer to it. The 'strict allocate = yes' did nothing for me. I could create or copy new files, but then could not change those files or change existing files. FIX: On a whim, I set "inherit acls = yes" and "inherit permissions =

I had been thinking this would be a good idea, but figured if it could be easily done, then it would be done already. Then I came across this article: http://www.suse.de/~agruen/acl/linux-acls/online/ which has this to say: ----------------------- The mapping between POSIX and Windows ACLs described here is found in this form in the SuSE and the UnitedLinux products, while the official

Here is the result from getent: user@SERVER01:~$ getent group | grep 10208 DOMAIN\group1:x:10208: BUILTIN\administrators:x:10208:DOMAIN\user1,DOMAIN\user2,DOMAIN\user3,DO MAIN\user4 What is up with that? Is there some way I can manually change the gid of one of these? The group1 is a new group that I just set up btw. James Dinkel

So now, I suppose I should let the list know what I've done to fix this. I found two offending computers, that caused this problem. The first offending computer I found, I just assigned it a static IP and then firewalled it off from the file server. For it's purpose, it's doesn't actually need to access the file server. I then found a second computer that was suspect, and

I have extended attributes enable in the file system so the 'hidden' and other attributes should be saved as an extended attribute. When connecting to the share from a Windows computer, if I copy a FILE then the new file stays hidden, but if I copy a FOLDER then the new folder is NOT hidden. I tried this on a Windows file server and it does preserve the 'hidden' attribute, which

What is the difference between %u and %U? The documentation says they both return the value of the connected username, but will they return different values? James Dinkel Network Engineer Butler County of Kansas There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.

What is the difference between %u and %U?? The documentation says they both return the value of the connected username, but will they return different values? Or the same values? Or different values in different situations? James Dinkel

Our Samba server running on CentOS 5.1 (upgraded from 5.0) with Samba 3.0.25b-1.el5_1.4 has been in place for about a year and a half. We had no issues till about 2 months ago. This may have coincided with the upgrade of CentOS 5.0 to 5.1 (which would have brought a new Samba version with it). Anyway, the server will be fine and snappy for a week or so, then out of the blue, nobody can

This is samba 3.0.23c running on RHEL 5.0. Starting a few months ago, the server started periodically slowing to a crawl. The cpu would be maxed out and top would show the load between 5 and 10 (it's usually way under 1, like 0.3 to 0.5). Any way to figure out what is causing this? This is a 3.2 ghz P4 and a 'pgrep smbd' returns 141 processes. We only have about 300 users who

What is the difference between Heimdal and MIT as far usability goes? MIT seems to be the default on major linux distrobutions, but I here a lot about people preferring Heimdal, but I can't find any reasons why. Is one generally more stable/faster/reliable than the other? There is already a blank wiki page at http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_%26_Kerberos so if anyone has any good

I imagine we can save some space on our file server by cleaning up all the files that are saved multiple times by different people. There is already the fdupes command in linux that will scan a directory tree and report what files have duplicates. This could be easily scripted to turn those duplicate files into symlinks to one file. The problem is see, then, is what would happen if someone

Our samba server authenticates to Windows 2000 Active Directory and I have ea support enabled on the share and on the file system. The OS is Debian Stable, fully updated and using Samba 3.0.23c from Backports. Now copying and accessing files is plenty fast, but when setting up permissions on directories that contain 100 GB or so of files and subdirectories takes like 60 minutes from the time I

One computer will show the previous versions of files just fine, but every other computer I've installed the Microsoft Shadow Copy Client on will not show any previous versions. The Previous Versions tab is just blank. In the samba log, I get this: [2006/11/28 12:02:02, 0] modules/vfs_shadow_copy.c:shadow_copy_opendir(81) shadow_copy_opendir: SMB_VFS_NEXT_OPENDIR() failed for

This is running in vmware, and I noticed occasionally wmware reports that the cpu is being maxed out by a virtual machine. Logging into the virtual machine and running top confirms that the smbd process is maxing out the cpu. If I leave it alone for a while, eventually it starts dropping connections and not letting people into the file server. Killing the process with kill -9 does no good, it