permission problems

[Steve Litt]

Check out force group=, and directory mode= and create mask=.

Steve Litt

At 06:05 AM 12/09/1999 +1100, Hansen, Craig D. wrote:
>Samba Techs,
>***Question***
>Can you prevent file permission problems on Samba mounts?
>
>    I have Samba 2.0.5a loaded on our SUN SPARCcenter 2000's and our HP-UX
>9000's and I have had a file permission problem ever since 1.9.8 was
installed
>way back when. Every once in a while we have a situation where someone
copies a
>file from we'll say /info8/pub/word.document, to there personal directory,
edits
>the file and pastes it back to it's original location, and when another
person
>from "the same group" tries to access the file, there permissions are
denied. I
>have spent many many hours looking into this issue and I cannot come up
with a
>solution. Here are a few things I have tried:
>
>1. Change the default umask on the UNIX machine to 0000 so that it would quit
>taking away the "write" permission.
>2. Set a sticky bit to particular directories
>3. Upgraded to a 2.0 version and update the smb.conf file to be set up as a
>share (example below)
>
>[info8]
>        comment = Public Directory
>        path = /info8/pub
>        browsable = yes
>        writeable = yes
>        valid users = @exec @chc 
>        write list = @exec @chc 
>        create mask = 777
>        directory mask = 777
>        map archive = yes
>        map system = yes
>        map hidden = yes
>        veto oplock files = /*.dbm/*.htm/
>
>***Question***
>To make a file-share work does it have to be "name specific". For example
is it
>alright for the mount to be called [info8] or does it have to say
something like
>[first-share]. Because with the setup I have above, which I created be a
>file-share to prevent the permission problems, still isn't fixing the
problem!
>
>I even looked through your FAQ list on the Samba website and found Eric
Praetzel
>that has had the same problems. I emailed him to see if he ever found a
fix but
>he said that no one had suggested anything that worked. 
>
>THANKS in advance for any support you can give me! 
>
>								Best Regards,
>								Craig Hansen
>UNIX System Administrator
>