Shaggy,
I don't know samba, but the only way I can make a file change ownership
by being accessed like that is to access it by [copying it to a
tempfile] deleting it, recreating it and [copying back the contents].
And user2 seems to need write permission to access it...If this be so,
and you are content that it be so, you just want the permissions to
stay the same, try setting the samba users' umask value to 0. How to
do this I don't know. If bash is involved, umask is generally set to
022 in /etc/profile (all users) or can be changed in ~/.bash_profile
(login shells) or ~/.bashrc (other shells, I think). 022 causes any
file to be created with g-w and a-w. There is a man page, I think.
Perhaps samba has a profile or login rc file where you could set it.
There is a place to set it in /etc/passwd (man 5 passwd) but I couldn't
see that that actuallly did anything. Or you could try grepping for
umask in the samba files.
Lawson
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On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 08:28:27 +0700 Shaggy Im-erbtham
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is a snip from my smb.conf file
> ====share definations ====
> [shared]
> path = /home/shared
> public = no
> browseable = no
> writable = yes
> printable = yes
> read only = no
>
> At prompt, typing "ls -l /home/shared," I get
> -rwx r- - r- - 1 user1 users size date time
> filename.xls (this is a MS Excel file)
> (at this point, user2 can "read only" the file)
>
> Then by the command "chmod a+rwx filename.xls" , I get
> -rwx rwx rwx 1 user 1 users size date time
> filename.xls
>
> Now, after user2 accesses the file, the command "ls -l /home/shared"
> yields
> -rwx r- - r- - 1 user2 users size date time
> filename.xls
> (user1 now can "read only" the file)
>
> A bit confusing but how can get the "chmod" command to be permanent,
> i.e.
> rwx for both user1 and user2? I even tried "chmod a+rwx /home/shared"
> but
> same result.
>
> TIA,
> Shaggy
> Bangkok, Thailand
>
>
>
>
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