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@@ -10,15 +10,14 @@ REL="HOME"
TITLE="SAMBA Project Documentation"
HREF="samba-howto-collection.html"><LINK
REL="UP"
-TITLE="Optional configuration"
+TITLE="Advanced Configuration"
HREF="optional.html"><LINK
REL="PREVIOUS"
-TITLE="Integrating MS Windows networks with Samba"
-HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html"><LINK
+TITLE="System Policies"
+HREF="advancednetworkmanagement.html"><LINK
REL="NEXT"
-TITLE="Configuring PAM for distributed but centrally
-managed authentication"
-HREF="pam.html"></HEAD
+TITLE="Group mapping HOWTO"
+HREF="groupmapping.html"></HEAD
><BODY
CLASS="CHAPTER"
BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"
@@ -46,7 +45,7 @@ WIDTH="10%"
ALIGN="left"
VALIGN="bottom"
><A
-HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html"
+HREF="advancednetworkmanagement.html"
ACCESSKEY="P"
>Prev</A
></TD
@@ -60,7 +59,7 @@ WIDTH="10%"
ALIGN="right"
VALIGN="bottom"
><A
-HREF="pam.html"
+HREF="groupmapping.html"
ACCESSKEY="N"
>Next</A
></TD
@@ -81,14 +80,13 @@ CLASS="SECT1"
><H1
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
-NAME="AEN1748"
+NAME="AEN1663"
>11.1. Viewing and changing UNIX permissions using the NT
security dialogs</A
></H1
><P
->New in the Samba 2.0.4 release is the ability for Windows
- NT clients to use their native security settings dialog box to
- view and modify the underlying UNIX permissions.</P
+>Windows NT clients can use their native security settings
+ dialog box to view and modify the underlying UNIX permissions.</P
><P
>Note that this ability is careful not to compromise
the security of the UNIX host Samba is running on, and
@@ -100,11 +98,11 @@ CLASS="SECT1"
><H1
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
-NAME="AEN1752"
+NAME="AEN1667"
>11.2. How to view file security on a Samba share</A
></H1
><P
->From an NT 4.0 client, single-click with the right
+>From an NT4/2000/XP client, single-click with the right
mouse button on any file or directory in a Samba mounted
drive letter or UNC path. When the menu pops-up, click
on the <SPAN
@@ -114,15 +112,14 @@ CLASS="EMPHASIS"
>Properties</I
></SPAN
> entry at the bottom of
- the menu. This brings up the normal file properties dialog
- box, but with Samba 2.0.4 this will have a new tab along the top
- marked <SPAN
+ the menu. This brings up the file properties dialog
+ box. Click on the tab <SPAN
CLASS="emphasis"
><I
CLASS="EMPHASIS"
>Security</I
></SPAN
->. Click on this tab and you
+> and you
will see three buttons, <SPAN
CLASS="emphasis"
><I
@@ -170,7 +167,7 @@ CLASS="SECT1"
><H1
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
-NAME="AEN1763"
+NAME="AEN1678"
>11.3. Viewing file ownership</A
></H1
><P
@@ -239,7 +236,7 @@ CLASS="EMPHASIS"
><P
>There is an NT chown command that will work with Samba
and allow a user with Administrator privilege connected
- to a Samba 2.0.4 server as root to change the ownership of
+ to a Samba server as root to change the ownership of
files on both a local NTFS filesystem or remote mounted NTFS
or Samba drive. This is available as part of the <SPAN
CLASS="emphasis"
@@ -256,7 +253,7 @@ CLASS="SECT1"
><H1
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
-NAME="AEN1783"
+NAME="AEN1698"
>11.4. Viewing file or directory permissions</A
></H1
><P
@@ -310,7 +307,7 @@ CLASS="SECT2"
><H2
CLASS="SECT2"
><A
-NAME="AEN1798"
+NAME="AEN1713"
>11.4.1. File Permissions</A
></H2
><P
@@ -372,7 +369,7 @@ CLASS="SECT2"
><H2
CLASS="SECT2"
><A
-NAME="AEN1812"
+NAME="AEN1727"
>11.4.2. Directory Permissions</A
></H2
><P
@@ -404,7 +401,7 @@ CLASS="SECT1"
><H1
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
-NAME="AEN1819"
+NAME="AEN1734"
>11.5. Modifying file or directory permissions</A
></H1
><P
@@ -436,7 +433,7 @@ CLASS="COMMAND"
CLASS="COMMAND"
>"Add"</B
>
- button will not return a list of users in Samba 2.0.4 (it will give
+ button will not return a list of users in Samba (it will give
an error message of <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>"The remote procedure call failed
@@ -500,13 +497,14 @@ CLASS="SECT1"
><H1
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
-NAME="AEN1841"
+NAME="AEN1756"
>11.6. Interaction with the standard Samba create mask
parameters</A
></H1
><P
->Note that with Samba 2.0.5 there are four new parameters
- to control this interaction. These are :</P
+>There are four parameters
+ to control interaction with the standard Samba create mask parameters.
+ These are :</P
><P
><VAR
CLASS="PARAMETER"
@@ -569,9 +567,8 @@ CLASS="PARAMETER"
>create mask
</VAR
></A
-> parameter to provide compatibility with Samba 2.0.4
- where this permission change facility was introduced. To allow a user to
- modify all the user/group/world permissions on a file, set this parameter
+> parameter. To allow a user to modify all the
+ user/group/world permissions on a file, set this parameter
to 0777.</P
><P
>Next Samba checks the changed permissions for a file against
@@ -602,8 +599,7 @@ CLASS="PARAMETER"
>force
create mode</VAR
></A
-> parameter to provide compatibility
- with Samba 2.0.4 where the permission change facility was introduced.
+> parameter.
To allow a user to modify all the user/group/world permissions on a file
with no restrictions set this parameter to 000.</P
><P
@@ -651,9 +647,7 @@ CLASS="PARAMETER"
the <VAR
CLASS="PARAMETER"
>force directory mode</VAR
-> parameter to provide
- compatibility with Samba 2.0.4 where the permission change facility
- was introduced.</P
+> parameter. </P
><P
>In this way Samba enforces the permission restrictions that
an administrator can set on a Samba share, whilst still allowing users
@@ -691,37 +685,13 @@ CLASS="PARAMETER"
CLASS="PARAMETER"
>force directory security mode = 0</VAR
></P
-><P
->As described, in Samba 2.0.4 the parameters :</P
-><P
-><VAR
-CLASS="PARAMETER"
->create mask</VAR
-></P
-><P
-><VAR
-CLASS="PARAMETER"
->force create mode</VAR
-></P
-><P
-><VAR
-CLASS="PARAMETER"
->directory mask</VAR
-></P
-><P
-><VAR
-CLASS="PARAMETER"
->force directory mode</VAR
-></P
-><P
->were used instead of the parameters discussed here.</P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECT1"
><H1
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
-NAME="AEN1905"
+NAME="AEN1810"
>11.7. Interaction with the standard Samba file attribute
mapping</A
></H1
@@ -780,7 +750,7 @@ WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="left"
VALIGN="top"
><A
-HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html"
+HREF="advancednetworkmanagement.html"
ACCESSKEY="P"
>Prev</A
></TD
@@ -798,7 +768,7 @@ WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="right"
VALIGN="top"
><A
-HREF="pam.html"
+HREF="groupmapping.html"
ACCESSKEY="N"
>Next</A
></TD
@@ -808,7 +778,7 @@ ACCESSKEY="N"
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="left"
VALIGN="top"
->Integrating MS Windows networks with Samba</TD
+>System Policies</TD
><TD
WIDTH="34%"
ALIGN="center"
@@ -822,8 +792,7 @@ ACCESSKEY="U"
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="right"
VALIGN="top"
->Configuring PAM for distributed but centrally
-managed authentication</TD
+>Group mapping HOWTO</TD
></TR
></TABLE
></DIV