Re: GLUG: Samba and multiple users

[Andrew McGill <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, someone (possibly Graeme Walker) said:

...
> I have created a common share on a Linux Samba (2.0.6), this is for
> all users to access and have read/write access. I gave the directory
> chmod 777 and set the group to wv. All the users belong to the wv
> group. However when a user creates a new file or directory (folder),
> only they can write to it!
> 
> I overcome this by manually doing a chmod 777 /home/common -R and
> chgrp wv /home/common -R Now I can do this with a cron job to run evey
> minute or two. But I believe there is a better solution.

This is generally correct (yes, there is a better solution):
	chgrp wv /home/common
	chmod g+s /home/common
This causes the wv group to own all files which are created in
/home/common (by default) (I don't know about directories, though).

In the declaration for the share, add:
	create mode=0777
(or 0770 if you don't want it world anythingable).

&:-)


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