On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 09:38:35AM -0800, Tom Naves wrote: > I asked this question yesterday and got some really good answers that I will > be able to use later. My problem was that I did not ask the question in an > exact enough way. > > Here is what I am trying to do: > > I have a share on my Samba server called art. The directory is owned by the > user root and the group tech doc. I have set the permissions like this on > the directroy: > > drwxrwxr_x That is I want root to have read, write, execute. I want the > tech doc group to have read, write, execute and I want all the orther users > to have read, write. > > I have these permissions set on the directory art. Is there a way to > configure my smb.conf so that any file that gets created in or copied to > this directory to have these permissions and, if possible, to be owned by > the above user and group?
Set the set-group-id bit on the directory to have it inherit the group owner. I have a new parameter in SVN (will be in Samba 3.0.14) called "inherit owner" which will cause a file to inherit it's ownership from the containing directory. You can also use "inherit permissions". Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba