Re: GLUG: Samba and multiple users

[Adrian Snyman <adrians@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000 andrew@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 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).
> 
> &:-)
> 

just check the umask that is set in the profile as well ..


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