FYI. In Windows the same process doing the same things that Samba does here also runs as SYSTEM. Some things just need root access I'm afraid. And yeah, coding

FYI. In Windows the same process doing the same things that Samba does here also runs as SYSTEM. Some things just need root access I'm afraid. And yeah, coding them in C is a bad idea in 2015, but Samba was started in 1992 and we have a lot of legacy code to maintain...