Samba permissions for group

[Martijn van Es]

Hey all,

I have an issue with SAMBA I've been trying to solve for some time now but I can't find the answer.

My samba server is running and I have set up personal directories for me and my wife.
I have also made a dir called shared where we store our shared data like pictures and music.
When one of us makes a new file or directory it is created with
drwxr-x--- for directories and
drwxr-x--- for files.

That way only the owner can write and i want the group to be able to write to.

So how do i configure my system that directories are created with 770 and files with 760 so we can both write in each others files and directories?

I hope someone can help me with this!

[Martijn van Es]

Re: Samba permissions for group

Allright.

I made some progress. I found a tutorial that points to the right direction. It can be found here http://allyourtech.com/content/artic..._workspace.php

The section for my share now looks like this:
[SHARED]
comment = Shared files
path = /srv/shared
browseable = no
read only = no
guest ok = no
force create mode = 660
force directory mode = 770
valid users = @share
force group = share

I expect new directories to have permissions drwxrwx--- but i get drwxrwxr-x
I expect new files to have permissions -rwxrwx--- but i get -rwxrw-r--

When i find out more about this i will post the answers here.

[Martijn van Es]

Re: Samba permissions for group

Figured out the last part!
My section for the shared files looks like this now:

[SHARED]
  comment = Shared files
  path = /srv/shared
  browseable = no
  read only = no
  guest ok = no
  create mask = 0660
  force create mode = 0660
  directory mode = 0770
  force directory mode = 0770
  valid users = @share
  force group = share

[SHARED]name of the share in SAMBA
comment = Shared filesThe comment on mouse over? not that important anyway
browseable = nohides the share when somebody browses the network
read only = nodefault = yes. That way nobody can write files.
guest ok = noI only want users with an account to be able to acces the files
create mask = 0660Here you override the defaults of linux making rw permissions for owner and group and no permissions for world default for FILES
force create mode = 0660Here you force new FILES created to have permissions set to -rw-rw----
directory mode = 0770Here you override the defaults of linux making rwx permissions for owner and group and no permissions for world default for DIRECTORIES
force directory mode = 0770Here you force new DIRECTORIES created to have permissions set to drwxrwx---
valid users = @shareEvery user that enters the share will get the group share
force group = shareEvery file or directory created will be owned by the group "share".


Now all users with access to SAMBA are able to read/write/delete files in the shared directories.
Phew, now I have solved this problem up to the next challenge in linux
Sites that were helpful for me and can be used for background reading:
http://cri.ch/linux/docs/sk0002.html
http://allyourtech.com/content/artic..._workspace.php
http://www.seattlelinuxchix.org/tuto...ies/samba.html

Martijn