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To:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: File permissions on Network Drives
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From:	Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>
Date:	11 Feb 2000 23:51:44 +0900
In-Reply-To:	Corinna Vinschen's message of Wed, 09 Feb 2000 23:34:05 +0100
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>>> On Wed, 09 Feb 2000 23:34:05 +0100
>>> Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de> said:

> If the network drive is a NTFS partition, ntsec will work. The
> security is implemented using NT security API calls which are
> definitely neither supported by FAT and FAT32 and AFAIK nor by
> SAMBA or any NFS driver.

Samba support ACL in recent versions. It forges SIDs with uid
and gid on UNIX regardless of its authentication method*. ntsec
can't recognize these SIDs and often cause errors of EACCESS on
Samba drives.

* Samba can join a NT domain and can authenticate users with
  domain controllers.
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  | AIST      Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>
  | HOKURIKU  School of Information Science
o_/ 1990      Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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