[Samba] Inherit permissions question

[David Wilson]

Hi guys,

Unfortunately I'm still battling with this.
Perhaps I've missed something ?

Your assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Kindest regards
David Wilson
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Wilson" <dave at dcdata.co.za>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 7:17 AM
Subject: Inherit permissions question


> Hi guys,
>
> How are you ?
>
> We have a share named [userprofile] on our Samba-3.0.9 server where each 
> users' profile is stored.
> Fairly often a user which is not the user that owns the profile i.e and 
> admin, needs to copy files into other users' profile folders.
> The problem which then arises is that the user who owns the profile is 
> unable to access the new files, due to the UNIX permissions being set to 
> the person who copied the files into the directory.
> I've looked through the smb.conf and found the "inherit permissions" 
> parameter and tried it but cannot seem to get it to work ?
>
> In my smb.conf for the [userprofile] share I have the following:
> [userprofile]
> path = /data/userprofile
> read only = no
> guest ok = yes
> profile acls = yes
> browseable = no
> csc policy = disable
> share modes = no
> inherit permissions = yes
>
> If the administrator connects to \\server\userprofile\user1 and writes a 
> file named "test.txt" into the directory the permissions from the 
> directory "user1" are not propagated down to the new file.
> My permissions on the "user1" directory are set as follows:
> drwx----- 16 user1     users     4096 2005-01-21       user1/
>
> The file "test.txt" gets written with the following permissions:
> -rw------ 16 root     Domain Admins     0 2005-01-21  07:07     test.txt
>
> Any ideas on how I get samba to write it so that the owner of the folder 
> propagates to new files written into the folder even if a domain admin 
> writes them there ?
>
> Many thanks.
>
>
>
>
> Kindest regards
> David Wilson
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> Tel +27 33 342 7003
> Fax +27 33 345 4155
> Cell +27 82 4147413
> http://www.dcdata.co.za
> support at dcdata.co.za
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