Controlling Owners and Groups for Files

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Alexander Shaw wrote:

> I've successfully configured Samba to give the filer permissions that I
> want, but it is still not giving the required performance with users and
> groups.
>
> The problem is that when a new file is created it defaults the File Group to
> the default group of the user, not necessarily the groups which has access
> to the files. Is there any way to get round this?


See "force group" in smb.conf(5)





chau, jerry
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