File ownership being changed to root:wheel ownership after copying to samba server

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Troy <troy at twisted.net> wrote:

> A very strange problem just started happening with Samba after I upgraded
> to version samba34-3.4.9 on FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE.
>
> Let's say my username is foobar.  I copy a file named To Fix.txt from a
> windows desktop machine to a samba share.
>
> In the log it shows the following:
>
> [2010/10/28 00:53:16,  2] lib/access.c:406(check_access)
>  Allowed connection from 172.16.0.5 (172.16.0.5)
> [2010/10/28 00:53:24,  2] smbd/open.c:580(open_file)
>  foobar opened file Working/To Fix.txt read=Yes write=Yes (numopen=2)
> [2010/10/28 00:53:24,  2] smbd/close.c:612(close_normal_file)
>  foobar closed file Working/To Fix.txt (numopen=1) NT_STATUS_OK
>
> Then when I look at the owner:group of the file that was just copied it
> shows:
>
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root      wheel        1422 Oct 27 16:07 To Fix.txt*
>
> I cannot figure out why the file is owned by root:wheel when it should be
> foobar:foobar.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>

Likely a permissions / umask problem.
Have you checked for sticky bits on the directory?


>
>
> -Troy
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mvh
Torfinn