Re: Samba and permissions

["Anthony E. Greene" <agreene pobox com>]

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On 31-Jul-2002/11:03 -0600, Mark Sweitzer <ms2k email com> wrote:
[typical samba setup snipped]
>This allows proper file ownership, and I then set all files in each user's
>directory to be "read only" to all users but its owner. It also allows me to
>assign other group permissions as is necessary without disrupting the
>ownerships. Sometimes though, a user will copy a data file from their own
>directory into another user's directory, with the intention of having the
>file be "writable" by the 2nd user. However, the file continues to hold the
>original ownership, and is "read only" to the 2nd user, even though it now
>resides in the 2nd user's data directory.
>
>I need to find the correct "chmod" command, or other method, to allow these
>special files to become writable. It needs to be via a one-time command or
>script entered at the server, as these Windows users do not have access to a
>Linux shell, only to their Samba network shares.

You need a shared directory under home (/home/shared_files), owned by root
and a group that the users belong to

  mkdir /home/shared_files
  chown root.groupname /home/shared_files
  chmod 0775 /home/shared_files
  chmod g+s /home/shared_files

and samba settings of

[Shared_Files]
  comment = Shared Files
  path = /home/shared_files
  browseable = yes
  public = no
  inherit permissions = yes
  force create mode = 0664
  force directory mode = 0775
  force group = groupname
  valid users = @groupname

Create a group for these users in /etc/group. Then they can put files that
they intend to share in a subdirectory of /home/shared_files and all
members of the group will have access to it. If you really need to
restrict access only to a specific subset of yor users, create a group for
that subset and create a directory and a Samba share for the group.

Tony
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