On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 14:30 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >I have a directory shared out via Samba for Quickbooks and seem > >to have some issues with permissions. The directory being shared > >is a subdirectory in an ext3 partition being mounted with the acl > >option. > > > >It has been setup as follows: > > chown root:DOMAIN\AD_Group /mnt/Intuit_Data/ > > chmod 2770 /mnt/Intuit_Data/ > > > >And the Samba share config is has: > > create mask = 0660 > > directory mask = 0770 > > > >So when a user creates a file from their Windows box through Explorer > >or any other app, it gets perms as you might expect: > > -rw-rw---- 1 Domain+jcasale DOMAIN+AD_Group 0 Apr 29 14:24 test.txt > >and it can be deleted by anyone. > > > >Problem is QB uses gamin and this file monitoring daemon runs as root > >and all sorts of changes take place as you work with the data, from creating > >the company file to editing it in QB, it ends up slowly changing to 0400? > > You probably want to look at the ``force user'' and/or ``force group'' > share settings in Samba (or look for a Real Accounting(tm) package in place > of QB :-). > > Bill -- I don't think that would even solve the problem because gamin reports to QB and then QB makes the changes as per the FAM docs which is the older of gamin. http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/doc.html There is no explicit docs on gamin on the gnome site. They refer to FAM as the per the documentation. Question: Did QB give you documentation on how to set it under Linux? JohnStanley