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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:17:34 -0500
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Subject: Re: 1.7.1-1 noacl on samba share has incorrect directory write bit
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On 01/10/2010 06:00 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan  9 10:05, Raman Gupta wrote:
>> One thing I'm not certain about is why mkpasswd returns my username
>> twice, once with a "Unix User" prefix and once with "SERVER" prefix
>> -- I note your example does not do that:
>>
>> $ mkpasswd -L server -S_ -U root,raman
>> Unix User_root:unused:10000:99999:,S-1-22-1-0::
>> Unix User_raman:unused:10500:99999:,S-1-22-1-500::
>> SERVER_raman:unused:11000:10513:Raman Gupta,U-SERVER\raman,S-1-5-21-903485053-2526882046-1379677160-1000://server/raman:/bin/bash
>
> I don't know.  It's something in your Samba setup, perhaps.

I see no obvious reason for it but then its not clear to me what 
mkpasswd "asks" Samba for when generating this list. In any case, do 
you think this is the cause of the chmod problem I am having?

>> Lastly, note I am using WinXP Home edition -- which has limited
>> user admin/acl features. For example, the Security tab in file
>> properties is missing (though I can add that via a download from
>> Microsoft). But it seems to have limited ability to add users to
>> groups and so forth, so the Security tab seems to have marginal
>> value anyway.
>
> Only the GUI is crippled in XP Home.  From the comand line everything
> works fine.

Ok -- but does it matter? I'm sorry, but its really not clear to me 
what I need to do to get acl's on samba to work in a non-domain 
environment.

Cheers,
Raman

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