Permissions question
Martin Thomas
mthomas at rhrk.uni-kl.de
Thu Mar 15 17:27:21 GMT 2001
chmod g+s on the directory should work, this
sets the group of any file and dir in the directory
to the group domain_users.
Hope this helps
Martin
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg J. Zartman, P.E." <greg at leiinc.com>
> To: "Samba News" <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 5:18 PM
> Subject: Permissions question
>
>
> > I have permissions type question that I'm sure is very elementary to the
> > veteran Unix user, but confusing to a Windows person like myself. Stupid
> > questions from us Windows people are OK because you guys are converting us
> > to Linux, right? :o)
> >
> > I have a Samba PDC setup for a Win2000/NT domain. I'm having difficulty
> > with permissions on the group shares. Specifically, I have a main project
> > share where people store project data that I want to be accessible by all.
> > I don't want to restrict access to anyone, except those that don't have an
> > account on the PDC.
> >
> > Where my confusion comes in is the Unix/Linux filesystem security. I've
> > setup a Unix group called domain_users and made everyone on my network a
> > member of that group. I set the ownership of the shared project directory,
> > Linux, to the domain_users group and made it readable, writable, and
> > executable to this group. On the samba end, I set valid user =
> > @domain_users, create mode = 0770, and directory mode = 0770. But, when my
> > users create a directory or file in the shared directory tree, the ownership
> > of the directory or file is set to the creator's username and group name.
> > What I want is for the group ownership to be automatically set to
> > domain_users, so everyone can access the file or directory. Is the only
> > option to make this happen to use the force group parameter in my smb.conf
> > file?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> >
> > Greg J. Zartman, P.E.
> >
> >
>
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