[ILUG] Filesystem ACLs versus permissions in smb.conf

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, Lisa Muir wrote:

> The basic principal as I understand it is that whatever user owns the smb
> process must have full privs on the filestem that holds the shares and
> then you instruct samba on how to refine access control as per its own
> internal list of users, but OS and filesystem level permissions will
> totally overide and break the samba setup if you use them.

Do smbd and nmbd not normally run as root?  They do on Ubuntu and Debian
systems.

Gavin