[Samba] The way things used to work...

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Dec 5 22:07:13 GMT 2008


On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 11:02:37PM +0100, Dragan Lukic wrote:
> Let me see if I understand....
> 
> In my smb.conf things should look like this:
> 
> [global]                                                    
>     workgroup = FOO
>     server string = FOO Server
>     security = user
>     map to guest = Bad Password
>     hosts allow = 192.168.125. 127.0.
>     log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>     max log size = 50
>     local master = no
>     os level = 33
>     dns proxy = no
> # ==================== Share Definitions ===================
> [Share]
>     path = /home/foobar/Documents/Share/
>     public = yes
>     writable = yes
>     printable = no
> 
> and ALL users (remote and LOCAL) will have full rigths on shared directory and 
> it's contents???
> 
> With my current smb.conf, whoever pastes file into shared dir creates it as 
> local user, so later on local user can edit or do whatever he/she wants on 
> pasted file. 
> Talking in permissions, pasted files are created as localuser:localuser rwxr-
> xr-x, and if I just leave guest OK and user leves security, files are created 
> as nobody:nogroup, and that is exactly what I DO NOT WANT!

Use force user on the share.

Jeremy.


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