Shares within Shares (Digest 2186)

Lack Mr G M gml4410 at ggr.co.uk
Wed Aug 18 11:59:43 GMT 1999


> Date:   Fri, 30 Jul 1999 14:10:35 -0700 (PDT)
> From:   Mike Oswell <oswell at xcert.com>
> To:     samba at samba.org
> Subject: Shares within Shares
>... 
> Is it possible to have a share within a share, or to force group on
> directories within a share?

   You can do the later in (most?) Unixes by turning on setgid for the
directory (ie. you don't do it within Samba).

> drwxrwx---   2 root  support   512 Jul 29 15:09 support/
> 
> -------------
> 
> If a support person goes and creates a file in the support directory, it
> will be grouped to 'staff'.

   Not if you've done a "chmod g+s support" so that this looks like:

  drwxrws---   2 root  support   512 Jul 29 15:09 support/


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