[Samba] inherit groups?

[Marc Donnelly]

SETGID is working for us.  I was just wondering if anyone has a better 
way of doing this.

-marc

On Feb 22, 2006, at 9:25 PM, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 04:07:01PM -0600, Marc Donnelly wrote:
>> I'm wondering if there is a better way of doing this.
>>
>> Right now we have a share (ShareA) with three sub directories in it
>> (Dir1, Dir2, Dir3) that have specific groups set for each directory. 
>> We
>> would like to have newly created files and/or directories inherit the
>> parent directories group.  Right now were using SETGID bit to
>> accomplish this.
>>
>> Is there a better way to accomplish this via samba?  We are using
>> create mask and directory mask in smb.conf to ensure permission are
>> consistent.  However that doesn't seem to affect groups ownership.  We
>> also used "inherit permission = yes" but that also doesn't fill the
>> need.
>>
>> Is there something similar to 'inherit owner" but for groups?
>
> Not currently. I deliberately didn't add "inherit group" because
> the SETGID bit in UNIX means the same thing. Anything I added
> in smbd would just do the same thing, only slower :-). I could
> add it if people would find it easier to set the same thing on
> a per-share basis without having to mess with UNIX permissions,
> although as I say it'll be slower.
>
> I'm curious as to why this isn't working for you. Can you
> give more details ?
>
> Jeremy.