samba and write privileges

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 18:22 +0000, redhatdude at bellsouth.net wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 7:46 PM,  <redhatdude at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > On a samba share which anyone can see but just a few can write to, how can I 
> > make the files writable by anyone with write access?
> > Right now, when a user with write access creates a file and it can only be 
> > modified by that user.
> > > Thanks,
> > > EJ
> > >
> 
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Vnpenguin <vnpenguin at vnoss.org>
> >
> > Put all user into a group & play with "create mask" Samba option.
> > 
> 
> I'm a little confused here. I've been reading some of the samba documentation and I haven't got it yet. Are you talking about a linux group or a windows group?
> I'm not connecting to any windows domain.
> I also set create mask to 0755 and still it won't let everybody on the write list modify the files.
> EJ
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you probably would have better success with...

        create mask = 664
        directory mask = 775

but I really think you want to use groups...you just want to fight it.

samba groups and unix groups are the same if they are mapped - pointers
were given yesterday

Craig