On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 17:41, David McBride wrote: > I have got my Samba file shareing to work, now I can not seem to get the > permissions worked out like I would like. > I would like admin and joe to have read and write access to all 4 folders. > When I try to write to any folder except admin logged in as admin I can not > write. you need to join admin and joe to the smbusers group and set the permissions on user1 and user2 to at least 775 for that to happen.
I think that is an unusual configuration though - most users have exclusive write access to their home dirs (only root can also write there) you could make joe and admin admin users using the admin users directive > Can some one direct me to a detailed document on how Linux handles file > permissions or the best way to do samba fiel permissions. samba file perms ARE linux file permissionns (unless you are using ACLs) have a look at http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/09/06/FreeBSD_Basics.html > BTW why does directory . and .. have different permissions? because . refers to "this" directory and .. refers to the one above "this" one. and they may have different permissions > > Users: admin, joe, user1, user2 > Groups:admins, joe > Smbusers:user01, user02 > Group membership:admins-admin, joe smbusers-user01, user02 > File permissions of data directory: > drwxrwxrwx root root . > drwxr xr x root root .. > drwxr xr x admin admins admin > drwxr xr x joe admins joe > drwxr xr x user1 smbusers user1 > drwxr xr x user2 smbusers user2 something is wrong with these - too many spaces between r and x for group and other. brad -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
