Hi Karolin After some time, I finally managed to recompile samba rather than using the default RPMs. I have a feeling that the default didn't have --enable-acls support, which would explain it ignoring ACL information.
Thanks for your help; it works now! Regards, Justin On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 08:35 +0200, Karolin Seeger wrote: > Hi Justin, > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 03:07:51PM +0100, Justin Finkelstein wrote: > > I've just recently upgraded one of our servers from Fedora Core to > > CentOS 5.2 and a side effect of this is that Samba is now version > > 3.0.28-1.el5_2.1. > > > > Following this upgrade, I have noticed an odd behaviour: samba ONLY uses > > ACLs to provide permissions to XP clients connecting to the server. > > > > Some research as has said that this may be due to the deprecation of acl > > group control, which is now replaced by the 'dos filemode' option. > > However, changing this doesn't the desired affect. > > > > To be clear: the desired effect, for me, is to have owner and group > > information (as well as ACLs) used to determine permissions for > > connected users. > > > > I've yet to find an answer to this via google. > > > > Has anyone else experience this and have some feedback? > > I think this one is fixed in 3.0.31 with the attached patch. > Details can be found at https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5202. > Can you try that? > > Karolin > -- Redwire Design Limited 54 Maltings Place 169 Tower Bridge Road London SE1 3LJ www.redwiredesign.com [ 020 7403 1444 ] - voice [ 020 7378 8711 ] - fax -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba