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  • samba File permisions not as expected after upgrade of samba

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    samba File permisions not as expected after upgrade of samba
    Redhat 6.6 and Redhat 6.7

    We updated yesterday to the following and now we see the following

    samba-client-3.6.23-20.el6.x86_64
    samba-winbind-3.6.23-20.el6.x86_64
    samba-winbind-clients-3.6.23-20.el6.x86_64
    samba-common-3.6.23-20.el6.x86_64
    samba-3.6.23-20.el6.x86_64

    With the following in smb.conf
    [docarchive]
    path = /opt/shares/users
    writable = yes
    public = yes
    create mask = 664
    directory mask = 0777
    force group = users

    From the windows server when a file is created is now reports
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 charvey BUILTIN\users 0 Sep 9 11:51 CHarvey Test Doc3.txt

    however on this version we see
    samba-client-3.6.23-14.el6_6.x86_64
    samba-common-3.6.23-14.el6_6.x86_64
    samba-winbind-3.6.23-14.el6_6.x86_64
    samba-3.6.23-14.el6_6.x86_64
    samba-winbind-clients-3.6.23-14.el6_6.x86_64

    -rw-rw-r-- 1 charvey users 0 Sep 9 11:44 CHarvey Live Test Doc.txt

    We expect that files created with the force group = users option set in samba are created with the group set to "users" and not "BUILTIN\users"

    Any one know why this has happened?

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