[Samba] Windows clients connecting to Samba with OpenLDAP ..

Jonathan Adams · External Since: Nov 02, 2009 Posts: 1

I am having real troubles with one of our servers.

Background:
We have been using samba in our company for more than 11 years now, since
version 1.9.16 ...
We run Sun Solaris on our servers.
We used to run NIS+ as our password system, but due to it's almost
impossibility to manage (basically only I knew how) we've moved to LDAP ...
We have now decided to centralize all our Samba passwords into the LDAP.

On the one machine configured to use LDAP for passwords we have a mysterious
problem, If we access the machine via a Windows computer (XP, Vista, etc) we
can create files and folders we can even rename and delete folders, but we
cannot rename or delete files.

If we access the machine via a Solaris or Linux machine using smbclient we
can do everything.

I originally wondered if it was due to the Sun compiled Samba 3.0.35 server
that is installed, so i removed it and compiled in 3.4.2 with OpenLDAP
support, but it has exactly the same issues.

This problem does not occur on our other machines (that run ldap as their
naming service in all but samba) ...

I'm happy to show all relevant information and logs/debugs if necessary.

I have seen some people talk about this before on the internet, but there
doesn't appear to be any answer.

Thanks in advance.

Jon

PS. Sorry for posting to more than one section (Posted to smb-clients as well)
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Adam Tauno Williams · External Since: Dec 14, 2004 Posts: 25

On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 12:56 +0000, Jonathan Adams wrote:
> I am having real troubles with one of our servers.
> Background:
> We have been using samba in our company for more than 11 years now, since
> version 1.9.16 ...
> We run Sun Solaris on our servers.
> We used to run NIS+ as our password system, but due to it's almost
> impossibility to manage (basically only I knew how) we've moved to LDAP ...
> We have now decided to centralize all our Samba passwords into the LDAP.

Because LDAP is easier to manage! Smile

I've been an OpenLDAP admin for 10
+ years... that really illustrates how horrible NIS was.

> On the one machine configured to use LDAP for passwords we have a mysterious
> problem, If we access the machine via a Windows computer (XP, Vista, etc) we
> can create files and folders we can even rename and delete folders, but we
> cannot rename or delete files.

This sounds like a basic permissions problem. If NSS is working, and
you've authenticated, it pretty much has to be a permissions problem.

> If we access the machine via a Solaris or Linux machine using smbclient we
> can do everything.

Maybe those are invoking "unix extensions". I've got no clue how that
specifically would effect permission handling.

> I originally wondered if it was due to the Sun compiled Samba 3.0.35 server
> that is installed, so i removed it and compiled in 3.4.2 with OpenLDAP
> support, but it has exactly the same issues.

Which even more strongly points to a permissions issue.

> This problem does not occur on our other machines (that run ldap as their
> naming service in all but samba) ...

I'm not sure what this means.

> I'm happy to show all relevant information and logs/debugs if
> necessary
> I have seen some people talk about this before on the internet, but there
> doesn't appear to be any answer.

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Gaiseric Vandal · External Since: May 21, 2007 Posts: 5

Are you using UFS or ZFS on the underlying file system- ZFS has a lot
more granularity - which is both a blessing and curse when it comes do
ZFS / Windows ACL integration. Although why smbclient should be
different either I don't know.

Are the initial ACL entries the same on a new file or directory when
created with Windows vs smbclient?

Are you using winbind at all? Is the server a PDC? Are there
multiple servers?

I ran into one issue with samba member servers in a domain: if I set
looked at permissions via windows it would show entries for
"UNIX/somename" not "MYDOMAIN/somename." (this was when I was using
LDAP for unix accounts but not for the actual samba passwords.

On 11/02/09 08:38, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 12:56 +0000, Jonathan Adams wrote:
>
>> I am having real troubles with one of our servers.
>> Background:
>> We have been using samba in our company for more than 11 years now, since
>> version 1.9.16 ...
>> We run Sun Solaris on our servers.
>> We used to run NIS+ as our password system, but due to it's almost
>> impossibility to manage (basically only I knew how) we've moved to LDAP ...
>> We have now decided to centralize all our Samba passwords into the LDAP.
>>
> Because LDAP is easier to manage! Smile

I've been an OpenLDAP admin for 10
> + years... that really illustrates how horrible NIS was.
>
>
>> On the one machine configured to use LDAP for passwords we have a mysterious
>> problem, If we access the machine via a Windows computer (XP, Vista, etc) we
>> can create files and folders we can even rename and delete folders, but we
>> cannot rename or delete files.
>>
> This sounds like a basic permissions problem. If NSS is working, and
> you've authenticated, it pretty much has to be a permissions problem.
>
>
>> If we access the machine via a Solaris or Linux machine using smbclient we
>> can do everything.
>>
> Maybe those are invoking "unix extensions". I've got no clue how that
> specifically would effect permission handling.
>
>
>> I originally wondered if it was due to the Sun compiled Samba 3.0.35 server
>> that is installed, so i removed it and compiled in 3.4.2 with OpenLDAP
>> support, but it has exactly the same issues.
>>
> Which even more strongly points to a permissions issue.
>
>
>> This problem does not occur on our other machines (that run ldap as their
>> naming service in all but samba) ...
>>
> I'm not sure what this means.
>
>
>> I'm happy to show all relevant information and logs/debugs if
>> necessary
>> I have seen some people talk about this before on the internet, but there
>> doesn't appear to be any answer.
>>
>
>

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