[Samba] changing group ownership on a file from windows

[Simon Jester]

Who are you logged in as on the windows workstation?

IIRC, only the owner of a file (or root) can change the permissions on it
from a windows workstation.

Charles

> From: "Rob Buhler" <rob at ee.byu.edu>
> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 6:51 PM
>

> Hello everyone.
> I am using Samba as a PDC and am wanting to be able to change the group
> ownership of a file from windows.  Can or has this been done?  I am able
> to change the permissons on a file from windows (rwx- read
> write,read&execute), but when I try and change  the group (removing the
> current group then clicking on add to get the new group), I get the
> message "access denied".
> Here is my smb.conf file... I have a share named test, with the group
> testwww, which I am
> a member of. I have a txt file I want to change the group from "testwww"
> to "test" from windows by right-clicking on the txt file, properities,
> security settings.  When I do so,
> I get a windows error message "access denied".
> I would appreciate any suggestions.
> thanks,
> Rob
>
> [global]
>    password server = 128.187.115.154
>    security = domain
>    netbios name = webedit
>    server string = Web Edit
>    workgroup = EEAUTH
>    encrypt passwords = yes
>    mangled names = yes
>    client code page = 437
>    lock directory = /etc/samba/var/locks
>    hosts allow = 128.187.114. 128.187.115. 10.8.116.
>    domain master = no
>    local master = no
>    time server = yes
>
> [test]
>    browseable = no
>    path = /web/test
>    read only = no
>    create mode = 0660
>    directory mode = 0770
>    valid users = +testwww
>
> ***********and in /etc/group I have the following lines*********
> testwww:x:1097:james,rob
> test:x:1098:james,rob