Re: Arrgh! Permissions Problems

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Greg Julius wrote:
> I'm sending this again even though I saw it post yesterday.  I got a 
> flood of the latest virus and I may have deleted the response (if any)  
> I've got my mail filter weeding it out now.
>
> My apologies for the repeat, but I'm really hoping somebody can help me 
> figure out what is wrong.
> -g
>
>
> Crimey,  Just having no luck with the interactions between my Win XP 
> desktop and my Linux server.
>
> Problem:
> The Win XP is perceiving the files to be read-only, and I can't figure 
> out why.
>
> Details:
> I maintain a couple of websites for different clients, and I am creating 
> mirror setups on my own Linux box to make it easy to do development, 
> test and whatnot.
>
> I can access the sites on my server via my browser and everything just 
> fine.  What's giving me problems is my placing files on the Linux 
> filesystem from my Windows system.
>
> I am running Samba, and have the following share set up (and accordingly 
> accessed in Windows).
>
> [websites]
>         path = /client/hostsetups
>         valid users = bullwinkle, rocky
>         force user = rocky
>         read only = No
>         create mask = 0775
>         force create mode = 0755
>
> Due to reasons of stupidity, my Window's id is bullwinkle and all of my 
> Linux presence is rocky.  I never use the bullwinkle id on the Linux box 
> directly, it's just the name of my window's id.
>
> The directory structure is such that each of the clients has a directory 
> under /client/hostsetups which is their root, and under that is a www 
> directory which is their webserver document root.
>
> The files in these directories are owned by the "client" with their own 
> ID and own Group (unique groups), defined in passwd and group as 
> appropriate.
>
> my ids, bullwinkle and rocky are both assigned group evilone as their 
> primary user group (500).
>
> Each of the other client's groups, have both of my id's listed behind 
> the definition: xclient1:x:509:rocky,bullwinkle
>
> The files are all defined (in the document root and below) as -r-xrwxr-x 
> (R-X to the owner and other, RWX to the group).  Even the containing 
> directory has this same permissions list.
>
> Why are these files only readable to Windows, and what can I do about it?
>
> Should I be listing IDs behind the group definition, or other Groups?  
> That is, should I be putting evilone as the name behind the xclient1 
> definition?
>
> What I'd really like is to have samba force the user and group to be the 
> client's user and group, but without me having to proliferate a slew of 
> shares.  Is there a way to maintain one share, and have samba force the 
> user and client based upon the directory?

This smells exactly like a username issue, Greg.  You really should
make sure that the Samba server has the exact same login as the WinXP
system, since that's what XP is sending out.  Also keep in mind that
XPHome has limited network capacity. It won't do Windows domain-based
authentication, for example.
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