Re: question about SAMBA shared directory and file permissions

i found out a very important thing. one is best off having the top directory owned by the group you want to have access. mine was owned by wheel. no problem for those of us in that particular group! Peter Risdon wrote: Peter Risdon wrote: There's a useful guide to configuring samba at:

question about SAMBA shared directory and file permissions

Hi, i have been having problems with a SAMBA shared directory and user permissions. My smb.conf file is simple and allows for members of 'wwwdev' access the directory, and they can when i test it, but we get all kinds of problems with the permissions on various files and directories:

Re: question about SAMBA shared directory and file permissions

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i have been having problems with a SAMBA shared directory and user permissions. My smb.conf file is simple and allows for members of 'wwwdev' access the directory, and they can when i test it, but we get all kinds of problems with the permissions on various files

Re: question about SAMBA shared directory and file permissions

Peter Risdon wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i have been having problems with a SAMBA shared directory and user permissions. My smb.conf file is simple and allows for members of 'wwwdev' access the directory, and they can when i test it, but we get all kinds of problems with the

Re: question about SAMBA shared directory and file permissions

Anthony carmody wrote: Peter Risdon wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i have been having problems with a SAMBA shared directory and user permissions. My smb.conf file is simple and allows for members of 'wwwdev' access the directory, and they can when i test it, but we get all kinds of

Re: question about SAMBA shared directory and file permissions

Peter Risdon wrote: There's a useful guide to configuring samba at: http://hr.oregon.edu/davidrl/samba/server.html Whoops. http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba/server.html PWR. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: question about SAMBA shared directory and file permissions

Peter Risdon wrote: create mode 0774 # Windows clients that seems to require the extra bit And just to correct my own gibberish (maybe I need some coffee): create mode = 0774 # Windows clients seem to require the extra bit PWR. ___ [EMAIL

Re: question about SAMBA shared directory and file permissions

This is how I would do it, assuming I understand you correctly: [wwwdev] comment = Virtual Web Servers HTTP dirs path = /usr/wwwdev browseable = yes # So that new files are created with 0664 mode -- force create mode = 0664 # So that new directories are created with 0775 mode -- force directory