SAMBA and shared file permissions question

[Miroslav Lachman]

I don't understand your question at all. What's your problem? Owner & 
Group, or file modes?

Maybe you need this in your kernel

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grep -B 13 SUIDDIR /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT
# If you are running a machine just as a fileserver for PC and MAC
# users, using SAMBA or Netatalk, you may consider setting this option
# and keeping all those users' directories on a filesystem that is
# mounted with the suiddir option. This gives new files the same
# ownership as the directory (similar to group). It's a security hole
# if you let these users run programs, so confine it to file-servers
# (but it'll save you lots of headaches in those cases). Root owned
# directories are exempt and X bits are cleared. The suid bit must be
# set on the directory as well; see chmod(1) PC owners can't see/set
# ownerships so they keep getting their toes trodden on. This saves
# you all the support calls as the filesystem it's used on will act as
# they expect: "It's my dir so it must be my file".
#
options         SUIDDIR
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Or you just need another create mask / directory mask / directory 
security mask / security mask / inherit permissions

Miroslav Lachman

Anthony carmody 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 and 
> directories:
> 
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> [wwwdev]
>     comment = Virtual Web Servers HTTP dirs
>     path = /usr/wwwdev
>     create mode = 0765
>     valid users = @wwwdev
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> 
> 
> i assume this is a ownership issue on the unix file system side, 
> although i have opened up the permissions to 'pants down in public' 
> level ....
> 
> drwxrwxrwx
> -rwxrwxrwx
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Miroslav Lachman
Webapplication Developer