AW: strange permission problem

Mike Kennedy mikek at syrinx.ucr.edu
Thu Feb 22 09:14:17 GMT 2001


Put a '+' in front of smbadm, that should get the desired effect
you were looking for:

	force group = +smbadm

That means the user has to already be a member of smbadm for their
group to be changed to smbadm when accessing this share.

Mike

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Dirk Kastens wrote:

> Zheng,
> 
> >    force group = smbadm
> > 
> > and the directory /export/spycam has permission mode:
> > 
> > drwxrwx---   3 root     smbadm       4096 Sep 19 10:06 /export/spycam/
> 
> If you use the "force group" option then every user who
> connects to the share will gain the access rights of
> the group, in your case smbadm. So everyone is able
> to read the files.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dirk Kastens............Tel.: +49 541 969-2347
> Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center)
> Albrechtstr. 28, 49078 Osnabrueck, Germany
> 
> 





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