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>3.1. <A
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>I have set 'force user' and samba still makes 'root' the owner of all the files I touch!</A
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>When you have a user in 'admin users', samba will always do file operations for 
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>Newer windows clients(NT4, 2000, XP) send encrypted passwords. Samba can't compare these 
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