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

[Micheas Herman]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 2:45 PM, 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.
>
> No sticky bit is set on the directory and the parent directory permissions
> are owned by the user foobar:wheel
>
> drwxr-xr-x   6 foobar  wheel   512 Oct 28 00:53 Working/
>
> This is only happening when I copy over files using Samba.  Anyone have any
> ideas?

It looks like foobar is being mapped to root. There are several ways
that this can happen.

My first suspect would be that force user = root has been put in the
smb.conf file by a gui, and the change only took place after the
restarting of samba. (only because this happened to me once.)

My second suspect, (which is more likely) would be that smbpasswd was
munged during the upgrade.

A third possibility is that the user shows up as

admin users = foobar, admin, troy

For more useful help, the entire smb.conf file would probably need to be known.



>
> Thanks
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