Hi,
Have just gotten home from a mini install fest of my own ... putting the latest
Redhat version of their Enterprise server on a 5 - 6 year old IBM x series box.
It was a last minute job from a client who has prevericated over this for a
while.
All went well despite the old gear (broken CD-ROM, sucky hard drive ...) except
for two things.
1 - The red hat installer sucks. I ticked no firewall, no HTTP , no Sendmail
and a few other options. did it listen to me? No way. thankfully I am much
more comfortable in Command line than gui anyway ... did most of the install
from there.
2 - Samba has changed - smbadduser is now gone ... it took me a while but I
found that smbpasswd has an option for adding users built into it. It does
however make the job of synchronising unix users to windows users to samba
users a longer process.
There is one change that I am sure i should have been able to resolve but my
brain is too fried to think through now.
They use an accounting package which bases its files on the Linux server.
When a user uses the system it works fine. when they try to re-index the system
it changes the user permissions on the files. As an example.
/Local/SybizDrive - drwxrwxrwx root:root
datafile.dbf -rwxrwxrwx root:root
Smb.conf
[sybiz]
read only = no
browseable = yes
guest = no
writeable = yes
if Bob goes to reindex the files (using a Client on a windows PC accessing
the files via samba) then the datafile.dbf ends up looking like the following
datafile.dbf -rwxr- -r- - bob:bob
The sybiz client then says bob is locked out from accessing that file .. tough
luck try again later son.
I have tried making bob a member of the sybiz group and making the files set
the permissions like
datafile.dbf -rwxrwxrwx root:sybiz
I have added in lines to smb.conf such as
group = sybiz
user = root (or any othoer user)
but the file always ends up as datafile.dbf -rwxr- -r- - bob:bob
I know there is a way to get all newly created files given a set permission or
standard permission , group and user but for the life of me my brain is too
fried to remember how.
If some one could show me where to rtfm or enlighten me some how my poor tired
over worked head would be most appreciative. Either that or I will wake up in
the morning and remember how to do it. It is the last problem left in what has
been a long and arduous weekend of bare metal server setup, fixing up crud,
resetting up data and transferring old data / permissions around (20 plus
hours).
Regards,
Shane
PS ... scp wasn't loaded as default either. it was quicker for me to get samba
running than to try to get scp running on the RH box. grrrr!!!!.
PPS Also the KDE CD (KLAX) didn't seem to include any ftpd type programs
allowing me to pull the data instead of pushing it from the system. It seems
very light on basic networking tools.
PPPS RH no longer calls its package manager the RPM package manager but now
hides it as another name, something like program installer or something equally
windows like. Bring back RH 7.3 / 9 .. please ...all is forgiven.... I don't
want to relearn the new red hat.
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