[Samba] Unix Group Question with repect to Samba

[mkh01 at earthlink.net]

I've set things up almost exactly like that before, with no problems.
Did you set the share to be writable in smb.conf? If the share is
configured to be read-only it would show the behavior you describe.

On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 05:31:55PM -0400, Bartick, Brett wrote:
> I have a question with regards to using Unix groups with samba. This might
> be easier to explain with an example.
> 
> Lets say I have two users
> 
> UserID: GID
> UserA:Group1
> UserB:Group2
> 
> etc.....
> 
> I now have an entry in /etc/group that looks like
> 
> groupdev::UserA, UserB
> 
> If I have a directory with group ownership set to "groupdev" and group mode
> "rws"
> UserA & UserB cannot create a file in the share on their Windows machine.
> But if they connect to the Unix host, no problem.
> Does Samba understand user lists for group permissioning?

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