[CentOS] Samba permissions problem

Thu Jul 17 13:26:24 UTC 2008
Brett Serkez <bserkez at gmail.com>

> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Kevin Thorpe <kevin at pricetrak.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>        I have a permissions problem with a samba share which I really can't
> fathom out. I'm trying to create a fully group writable share. Easy or so I
> thought.
> As you can see from my config I am trying all the options to set files group
> writable, however when I create a file from the client I'm always getting
> the
> mode 0644. Does anyone have a clue why?  Thanks!
>
> client:
> //database.pricetrak.com/spendtrak      /home/spendtrak cifs
> username=webserver,password=twonkerlet,uid=apache,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770
> 0 0
>
> server:
> [spendtrak]
>         comment = Spendtrak Files
>         path = /home/spendtrak
>         browseable = no
>         writable = yes
>         printable = no
>         valid users = +spendtrak
>         force group = spendtrak
>         create mode = 0660
>         create mask = 0660
>         force create mode = 0660
>         directory mode = 0770

I have this working with:

[example]
        path = /home/example
        writeable = yes
        browseable = yes
        create mask = 0775
        force create mode = 0775
        directory mask = 0775
        force directory mode = 0775

Brett