[Samba] Creating a write-only drop box

[Daniel Davidson]

This came up for me again today, I need to create a similar setup on
another machine.  Any ideas?

Dan


On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 14:47 -0600, Daniel Davidson wrote:
> Oops Samba version 3.0.28-0.el4.9
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 09:39 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 10:35:31AM -0600, Daniel Davidson wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I have historically had drop boxes available to my users, and after a
> > > samba upgrade, I am now experiencing trouble with those.
> > > 
> > > Each user home directory, linux path /file-server/home/a-m/$username
> > > server path \\file-server\users\a-m\$user, has a drop directory with
> > > path /file-server/home/a-m/drop/$username.  This directory has a
> > > symbolic link named drop in their home directory.  Permissions on
> > > the /file-server/home/a-m/drop/$username folder are 2773.  The idea here
> > > is that users can transfer large files (GB in size) amongst themselves.
> > > 
> > > [users]
> > >         path = /file-server/home
> > >         follow symlinks = yes   
> > >         wide links = yes        
> > >         writeable = yes         
> > >         inherit permissions = yes
> > >         block size = 4096
> > > 
> > > We recently did a long awaited upgrade to our system that in part
> > > involved upgrading samba, and now our drop directories seem broken, as
> > > in we can no longer drop anything into them.
> > 
> > Upgraded to which version of Samba please ?
> > 
> > Jeremy.
>