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  From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : Glen Turner , omegasys@adam.com.au
  Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 01:08:58 +0900

Re: Samba Permissions

Hi,

At 10:44 PM 4/26/00 +0930, Glen Turner wrote:
>Jeremy Ervine wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I am having a small problem with Samba File Permissions. I have created
a small
>> network with about 10 users, and these ten users all have their own home
directory,
>> plus they need full access a shared, samba share. My problem is, each
user who
>> writes a file to that share is only writable to that user, but read only to
>> everyone else.
>> 
>> I have tried all the samba docos, I have set in Linuxconf 777 to be the
default
>> permission for all files written, but still no luck.
>
>I find it best to force the permissions of the created files
>on shares that are owned by the group.  For example, if
>all users in the UNIX group 'office' exchange files through
>the 'office' share, then I put the following into smb.conf
>
>[office]
>   comment = office.smb.example.edu.au
>   path = /home/samba/office
>   browseable = Yes
>   writeable = Yes
>   read list = @office
>   write list = @office
>   force group = +office
>   create mask = 0660
>   directory mask = 0770
>   force create mode = 0660
>   force directory mode = 0770
>

Glen is right. The parameters he is pointing you at are:

    force group = some group

This group should be a group that all users who need write access to the
share are in.

   force create mode = 0660
   force directory mode = 0770

This makes sure that all files and directories created will have the
correct permissions.

You can also use force user = <some user> if you want just to keep things
tidy.

Under Samba 2.0.7 you may be able to use 

   inherit permissions = yes

on the share as well.

Regards
-------
Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com, Master Linux Administrator :-),
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Co-author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author: First Australian 5-day, intensive, hands-on Linux SysAdmin course
Author: First Australian 2-day, intensive, hands-on Samba course

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