You can force the ownership on the server in the samba config. You can
force any PART of the ownership - like group - in the samba config. On my
server I enforce both owner and group to achieve equality amongst users,
but guarantee that I, as network admin, can also perform any necessary
functions. Since the users are members of the group, and the group has full
privileges, it all works.
In smb.conf
force user = the-user-name-you-choose
force group = the-group-name-you-choose
On Friday, April 27, 2012 12:41:40 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
>
> I have a client that shares a file with his secretary. He copies it
> to the server. She puts it on her desktop (win 7?), edits, and puts a
> copy back on the server. So they use the file server as a holding
> ground. For software-related reasons, they don't open the copy of the
> file that is on the server (it must be opened locally).
>
> When they do this, they cannot actually replace the old file.
> Instead, a new file is created. So:
>
> file.xzy
> file(2).xyz
> file(3).xyz
>
> This is what the directory on the file server ends up looking like b/c
> they can't overwrite each other's file.xyz.
>
> The odd thing is that they could do the overwrite (which they desire)
> before the client bought a new computer, appx 2 weeks ago.
>
> The permissions of the file show ownership of the names of the people
> who own them (in this case, Brad, Lisa). I assume this is because
> they have their first names as profiles on their windows desktops.
>
> My file server is an old version of Ubuntu. I use Samba, but the file
> server is totally open -- no one needs to have a samba username to map
> to and write to the shared drives.
>
> How can I make it so they are able to overwrite each other's files?
>
> Thanks,
> Kari
>
> --
>
> Kari Matthews
> o: 630.457.1600
> c: 630.448.0865
>
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