I just noticed today that when I connect from my Mac OS X box to my Debian/Etch box via Samba it appears that every time I create a file it gets the owner of root. For example if I log on as jfrias I would expect files to be jfrias:jfrias when I create them but they are created as root:jfrias.

After playing around with the config file for a while I noticed that the following line causes the problem:

admin users = @adm

Since the user jfrias is part of the adm group this line in smb.conf seems to be causing the issue. I still don’t understand why but if I remove it it all goes back to normal. I’ll do a little research on the Issue and see if I can find out if this is expected.

Mac Mini

Mac OS X Version 10.5.5
smbclient 3.0.25b-apple

Debian/Etch Box

Linux 2.6.18-6-686
smbd 3.0.24