samba and write privileges

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Jul 8 23:04:03 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 21:21 +0000, redhatdude at bellsouth.net wrote:
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>
> >
> > 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
> > ----
> > 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
> 
> Craig,
> I appreciate the help.
> I have zero experience with Windows. I've only used MacOS and Linux  my whole life. The reason I'm still not using groups is because I don't quite get the mapping. I'm not joining a Windows Domain. The other thing is, I don't know if I should create a samba users group in the system and add my samba users to it or use an existing group. I'm lost here.
> Thanks,
----
a windows domain is a windows workgroup with extra features - if you
want to use samba groups, you have to use samba groups and you have to
map the groups. I gave you the link to the direct topic of samba group
mapping. I don't know how much more help I can give you.

Craig




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