[SAMBA] Retaining ownership of files

[Yura Pismerov]

> Tommy.Fallsen at kongsberg.com wrote:
> 
> > -----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

	I don't know much about how that option behaves, but what I suggested
will
take care of setgid and group ownership of any newly created directories
and files.


> still would change owner, but not group. I don't see this as a

	Group stays whatever parent directory has it set to. Isn't it what you
wanted ?


> 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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