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CIFS? Really?

CIFS? Really?

Posted Feb 8, 2007 18:11 UTC (Thu) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861)
In reply to: CIFS? Really? by dmarti
Parent article: Why a secret patent deal won't help Linux/Windows (LinuxWorld)

I suppose my problem is that the server is NOT Samba. It's Windows... so then the problem is in the underlying NTFS filesystem, not CIFS/SMB itself.

Good to know; thanks!


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CIFS? Really?

Posted Feb 9, 2007 0:50 UTC (Fri) by sjj (guest, #2020) [Link]

Windows (on NTFS) has both share-level and filesystem level access controls. If they differ, it will choose its actions based on the more restrictive of the two. Also, the filesystem ACLs are by default inherited from the next higher level in the tree. You may have to explicitly break the inheritance in some cases.

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