Todd Cary wrote:
A problem that has plagued me for a long time (finally decided to get some expert help) is setting the owner/group on directories/files I create with samba. Here is my situation:
On my Linux/Apache I have a user, smith. The /home/smith directory is owned by smith and is part of the group, todd (me) with permissions 775.
This works fine until I create via samba a directory in smith e.g. /home/smith/test. The directory is owned by todd and smith cannot create a file in it.
What have I missed and how do I fix it?
Todd
P.S. My admin expertise is just moderate since my Linux server just runs and runs without much administration needed.
Todd, You did not provide a copy of your smb.conf you may want to check directory mask = 0775 create mask = 0664 in the global section or in the particular [homes] section as you see fit. another way is to use the sticky bit under unix file permissions ie chmod g+s /home/smith HTH