1. NAS with PDC/AD will still only support the RWX - Read Write Execute permission - POSIX limitation. There is no workaround this Samba POSIX limitation.
2. If u really need 2 use the NTFS permission; create an iSCSI target and mount it to your Windows Server 2000/2003 thru an iSCSI initiator.
3. Create a share folder with share permission of read and change for users.
4. Thereafter, define NTFS permission for sub-folders by choosing to inherit or not to inherit them from the top-level folders.
5. If you are planning on migrating from an NTFS drive on your Windows server to the iSCSI volume; download the Microsoft Resource Kit for Windows Server.
6. Use the ROBOCOPY.exe to effectively copy all the permission from local source folder into the iSCSI volume. This will not copy share permission; only NTFS permissions.
7. All you need to do after verifying the copy process is to compare the file/folder size/numbers.
8. Recreate some of the share permissions which should be a piece of cake by copying the former.
9. Unshare the source folder and recreate the same name; after that tell users they are ready to access the files on the larger NTFS volumes on Server 2003
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