[SAMBA] Retaining ownership of files

[Tommy.Fallsen at kongsberg.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yura Pismerov [mailto:ypismerov at tucows.com]
> Sent: 5. november 2002 15:59
> To: Fallsen, Tommy
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [SAMBA] Retaining ownership of files
> 
> 
> 	chown -R group /path/to/the/share
> 	chmod -R g+w /path/to/the/share group
> 	find /path/to/the/share -type d -exec chmod g+s {} \;
> 
> In smb.conf you will need only 2 options:
> 
> create mode = 0664
> directory mode = 0775
> 
> But all those 60+ developers should be in that group if they also have
> direct (shell) access to the files. You also should change umask to 002
> for their shells.
> 
> If you want to maintain different groups within the same share/directory
> you can run the
> same 3 commands I mentioned but replace "share" with particular
> sub-directory name and "group" with particular group.
> This setup will allow to maintain proper group ownership on OS level
> (which takes precedence over Samba setup), so on the Samba level you
> will only have to take care of the proper modes on the
> files/directories.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 

I didn't notice this before, but I found a option inherit permissions, I
assume this allows developers to create new dirs without worry about setting
setgid on them? Using the settings you provided MS Word docs still would
change owner, but not group. I don't see this as a problem, but I have to
Make sure the developers know this is how samba behave.

Tommy Fallsen  

> 
> > Tommy.Fallsen at kongsberg.com wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> > I want users to edit each other files, but not having the ownership
> > changed at all I.e. user1 create a word doc, user2 can edit it, but
> > the ownership is not changed to user2.
> >
> > force create mode
> > force directory mode
> > force user
> > force group
> >
> > I know of these , but our share have tons of dirs with files that have
> > different users and groups, 60+ developers working together.
> >
> > Are there any new options in 2.2.6 that can fix this?
> >
> > thanks
> >
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