[Samba] creating read/write files for everyone from a SAMBA client

M. D. Chappell ee0mdc at NSLM.fsnet.co.uk
Thu Dec 19 11:13:00 GMT 2002


On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 05:16, Ron Smith wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what to include or change in my 'smb.conf' files to 
> enable anyone accessing a 'SAMBA' server share to have '777' permissions for 
> directories, and '666' permissions on files they create, move or copy there?
> 
> I have two SAMBA servers running; one on an IRIX machine and the other on a 
> 'Linux' machine in a LAN environment. The folks on the Win boxes can create 
> files on both machines, but I want the permissions on the directories and 
> files they create on the SAMBA servers to be accessable to eveyone else on 
> the LAN.

For the relevant shares add the following

force directory mode = 0777
force create mode = 0666



Mark





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