On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Sam Hart wrote: > I'm trying my darnedest to set up a samba server to share some directories > for certain user groups. Several of the shares will be housing databases > (incl. MS Access) which will be accessed by several users, often at the > same time, and thus need to deal with both file-locking and group > ownership. > > I have read that I need essentially the following in my smb.conf file: > [lab] > path = /usr2/lab > available = yes > public = yes > guest only = no > writeable = yes > browseable = yes > valid users = foonly, hart > only user = no > oplocks = No > level2oplocks = No > create mask = 770 > directory mask = 770 > force group = lab > > with the important lines being "create mask", "directory mask" and "force > group". > > The problem is that while the "create mask" and "directory mask" lines > work, the "force group" line does not, and the group "lab" is never forced > for new files/directories created in that share. I have tried both "= lab" > and "= +lab" (not really understanding the difference) and neither worked. > > I've had some samba experience in the past, but it has always been > rudimentary (printer sharing, basic/non-readable file sharing) and trying > to make this work is baffling me. > > Any advice would be mucho apreciated. (oh, and before anyone askes, yes, > I'm SIGHUP'ing my smbd each time I change the config).
Set the directory SUID group and if you want forced user do SUID user also. Much preferred way instead of doing this in samba. It's a Unix file system issue, not a samba issue. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
