[Samba] Setting domain group ownership on files

[Dale Schroeder]

On 06/21/2011 5:58 AM, Dermot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been testing out a samba installation and am slowly getting to
> a point where I am ready to push the project live. I have been playing
> with a domain member server that uses winbindd. I have created a share
> in /tmp called public to see what happens with user and group
> permissions.
>
> I created the directory as follows: mkdir /tmp/public; chgrp users
> /tmp/public; chmod 2777 /tmp/public. Then from a Windows XP work
> station I logged in as a domain user, connected to the share and
> created a folder. When I list the folder from the shell on the server
> I see:
>
> root at dev2:/etc/samba# ls -ltr /tmp/public/
> total 4
> drwxrwxr-x 2 DOM\djohn users 4096 2011-06-21 11:44 d_john
>
> That's great, the domain user owns the file. However the group owner
> is the local group 'users'  (coming from the chmod above). My question
> is "Is there a way to chgrp the parent folder to the DOM\Domain users
> group?" or do I have to employ a groupmap between Domain users and the
> local users group?

chgrp "DOM\Domain Users" /tmp/public should work with winbind.

Dale
> Thanks,
> Dermot.