Best practices for managing file permissions in SMB network

[Jorge Bastos]

you have an option to add your share, create mask = ??
if i remember..


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Benjamin Jackson" <bhjackson at gmail.com>
To: <smb-clients at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 4:04 PM
Subject: Best practices for managing file permissions in SMB network


> Hi all,
> 
> I'm running a SMB network with OSX and Windows XP, using SharePoints
> to setup my shares (though I could probably edit smb.conf if the need
> arose). Our shares are almost all on external HDs.
> 
> We have four users here at the office, and everyone needs access to
> the files in the share. However, what ends up happening is that one
> user will for example create a Photoshop document, and no one else can
> overwrite it.
> 
> I have a basic understanding of users and groups, and can easily put
> everyone in the same group, but I don't know of any way to control the
> permissions that are set on newly created files. What's the best way
> to go about this? Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> - Ben
>