[Samba] file permissions on home directories and admin user copying files to it

[Christian Nabski]

We want to copy files with the group in the admin list of the [homes] 
share. The problem is that the copied files then are owned by root.
I know this is normal unix behavior. However we want the copied files to 
be owned by the user of the homeshare. 

I read the samba howto section "Users Cannot Write to a Public Share".
Although I want to set the owner on the home shares and not on a public 
share.
The mentioned section however does not seem to work on Redhat 7.3 nor RH 
AS 3 ?
The group gets set correctly (gets changed to the group who owned the 
directory) but the user stays the same. 
I am wondering if this is a particular issue with the Redhat distribution 
or something else ? 

For now I tried this "solution" :

in [homes] : 
root preexec = chown -R %S %P

This works but I wonder if this is good solution ?


Christian