Hi, Did you try setting umask? What are the permissions of a newly created file? What `umask` says?
Denis > Hello, > > I've been helping out with an edubuntu system for Friends of > the Earth in Birmingham UK for about 6 months now. > > The system is very good and has gone down well with the users > except for one final problem we have not managed to resolve. > > File access permissions. Basically we have about 5 machines > which users log onto with using a location specific user account. > As people often work on the same documents and files but at > different times and from different workstations we saved most > things to a shared directory called 'public'. > > This directory is located in the home directory of the server > alongside all of the user accounts home directories. > > When somebody creates a file and saves it to the Public > directory unfortunately they're are no write privelages or > sometimes no read privelages for the other users. We did try > playing about with groups but had no success. Also we did > chmod everthing on mass a few times and thought of maybe > having a cron job to do this chmod regularily but thought > this a bit of a bodge. > > The partial solution we found was to connect to this public > directory using a samba share, shortcut link located on the > desktop. This was already setup anyway for our Window machine > on the network. > This works well except for the fact that some of the programs > we use, when we go to the file open menu from the browser the > desktop samba share shortcut is not visible. Hence the only > way to navigate to the file or folder is by going through the > conventional directory structure. This results in the file > being saved with its permissions as 744 or similar. > > Any ideas? We're really happy with the system but this small > detail is a bit of a thorn in the side at the moment. > Also note that some of our users have never seen linux so > the system has to be easy to learn. > We're using it as a fairly typical office setup we think. > Shared file server, samba printer, email on the server via > IMAP, intranet WIKI, sql database with php front-end. > > Thanks Ian -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
