One of my users has a CIFS share on one of my toasters. Her boss wants access to her files. This is legitimate, since she is his secretary. The cifs setup says that cifs uses the unix security model.
We have tried adding him to the unix group and making sure the unix permissions allow him to access the directory. This didn't work. Setting the mode to 775 gave him permission, but this shows that the group membership isn't working.
As a test, I added myself to the unix group, and I *was* able to access the share. Why me and not him. It gets stranger: I removed myself from the group and I was still able to map the share as a drive. At this point, the mode was 770, so I don't think the unix permissions were providing me this unexpected access.
Clearly, there is some cacheing going on, but I don't know where, why, or when.
What's the best thing to do in this case. I'm basically a unix-head, so doing this with unix permissions is preferable, but not absolutely necessary. I would prefer not to make an NT group, however.
Thanks!
Tom