Dear salam, Please make sure that, user viewpoint must be a member of that group which user todd belongs (because todd is able to write in the directory). I suppose permissions donot need to be checked, beacuse todd is able to write. OR, the files permissions should be 664 Regards, Umair Shakil ETD On 10/1/07, Todd Cary <todd at aristesoftware.com> wrote: > > My www directory is owned by "apache" and the group is "todd" and the > permissions are 775. > > My Windows computers use Samba and they log into Linux with "todd". > > Under the www directory there are various directories which may have a > group belonging to a user e.g. "viewpoint". Using this example, there > is a directory under www (acutally called httpd), "viewpoint" that is > owned by "apache" and is a member of the "viewpoint" group. "todd" is > also a member of the "viewpoint" group. > > Now this is the problem I do not know how to correct: if "todd" using > Samba creates a directory in "viewpoint", the owner and group is "todd" > with 755 permissions. Now if the "viewpoint" user tries to write to the > directory, he does not have adequate permissions. > > Maybe I have not setup the owners and groups correctly. maybe there is > something I need to do with how Samba interacts with the server. > > Any suggestions will be appreciated... > > Todd > > -- > Ariste Software > 2200 D Street Ext > Petaluma, CA 94952 > (707) 773-4523 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20071002/4403ee97/attachment-0005.html>