Re: GLUG: Samba and multiple users

["Graeme Walker" <glug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All

Thanks for the help. the chmod g+s did the trick and create mask=0777 in
smb.conf. (It seems to work with directories). FYI: The create mask = 0777
did not work until I did the chmod g+s

Graeme
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew McGill" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Graeme Walker" <svlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <glug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 7:39 AM
Subject: Re: GLUG: Samba and multiple users


> 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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