[Samba] share rights

[Marian Mlcoch, Ing]

Hi Mats

you good understand that when login as mats to windows then samba accept you
as mats and aply mats restrictions on linux filesystem. Settings in smbusers
is not necessary when names in win and linux is identical .

If you acces share home that owner is mats then mod of files and dirs is rw
for mats.
But share documents is i mean diferent directory and have yuor owner and
group not mats...
When yuo can use documents by samba users then have two way to do this
1. if you need enable write to all registered samba users then simply create
special linux user   usamba
    then type chown usamba -R /.../document    and to smbconf document share
add force user = usamba
    but afther this you are not info about creator or modif user
    second way is not use force user but force chmod to files
2. if yuo need that write by owner creator but read and create all then must
define linux group gsamba and add users to it
    then type chgrp gsamba -R /.../document    and chmod 775 /.../document

and exist more another combinations ...

Bye.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mats Gustafsson" <mats.gustafsson at abc.se>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 5:58 PM
Subject: [Samba] share rights


> I have successfully, by now, installed a samba server. I can log on from
win98 and 95
> computers. I can see the shares and use some of it.
>
> There are a couple of shares
>
> [Home]
>
> [Document]
>
> I can browse the share and a user, "Mats", can read and write copy and so
on in
> /home/Mats, so obviously the server recognizes the user as the Linux user
with the
> same name. (in smbusers  there is a Mats = Mats)
>
> When trying to give rights to the document share things are worse:
>
> I have tried
>
> create mode = 640  (even 777)
> directory mode = 755 and so on, but whatever I use, the user can not
access the share,
> just browse and see the files that root has laid there as an example.
>
> Only if the file is manually manipulated by root with
>
> chmod test.txt 666    it's possible to open and write through samba.
>
> Also when looking at   log.smbd I can see:
>
> "couldn't connect to service mats"
>
> What does this mean and could there be a connection between the two
problems. What
> is to be done?
>
>
> Mats Gustafsson
>
> mats.gustafsson at abc.se
>
>
>
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