On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 10:00:26PM -0800, Des Dougan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...]
> 2. Edited the 61Profilesshare template and uncommented the various lines 
> (note: the closing brace is in the wrong place - the template won't expand 
> correctly. I moved it to before the [Profiles] line.)

No, the brace is in the right place for a file of comments (a Perl "eval" of
that block returns nothing). It needs to be moved if you uncomment the lines.

> [...]
> When I logon as a test user, I get an error that it can't write the profile 
> to \\agatha\Profiles\test4.pds. 

Which is strange - Samba should be creating files in that directory.

> I logged in as admin, and was able to 
> create a profile there. It would appear that the directory permissions are 
> incorrect:

Thanks - that's what we're trying to determine.

> [root@agatha /root]# ls -l /home/e-smith/files/samba
> total 8
> drwxrwsr-x    7 admin    admin        4096 Nov 28 01:42 printers
> drwxrwsr-x    3 admin    admin        4096 Nov 28 21:12 profiles
> 
> Sticky bits have always eluded me somewhat. Can someone explain what the 
> one above is for?

It's not the sticky bit. The set-group id bit above means that group 
ownership is inherited when subdirectories are created. The sticky bit
would be a terminal 't' (instead of the x) which means that only users
can delete their files (see /tmp, /var/tmp). If it must be world-writable
(yecch), it needs to be sticky as well.

> I've left this for the moment, rather than making the profiles directory 
> world writable.
> [...]

Could you make it world-writable and log in as the test user again? Then
do an "ls -l" so we can see what it looks like.

Gordon
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  Gordon Rowell                        [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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