[OpenIndiana-discuss] Office apps unable to write to ZFS over CIFS

[Gordon Ross]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Martin Frost <me at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> I'm running oi_148 as a fileserver, exporting via NFS and the
> kernel CIFS service for ZFS.
>
> But Windows users (XP and probably all Windows versions) are unable to
> write files from any MS Office applications into the shares from ZFS.
> They always get: "Access denied.  Contact your administrator."  Same
> result whether they're trying to overwrite a file or write a new file.
>
> Any ideas what's causing that?  This is driving me crazy.  I've
> seen the same problem under Linux with Samba, where disabling
> locking seemed to help.
>
> After that error, the users save the file to the local disk and copy
> it over the CIFS connection into the ZFS system successfully.  So they
> clearly have write access into ZFS from Windows, and the filesystem
> has lots of free space, but Office can't write any files to ZFS.  I
> assume this is some sort of locking problem.  I have nbmand=on, which
> is what I've read it should be set to for CIFS sharing.
>
> The directories and files they're trying to edit are owned by the
> actual user (defined by matching passwd and smbpasswd entries on the
> OI machine) and have 700 permissions and full_set ACLS:
>
>               owner@:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:allow
>            everyone@:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:deny

You are always a member of the "everyone" group, so that deny ACE is
killing your access.


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Gordon Ross <gwr at nexenta.com>
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