Hi :) On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:31 AM, James Bensley <jwbensley at gmail.com> wrote: > On 26 January 2011 10:17, Rafa Griman <rafagriman at gmail.com> wrote: >> Directories should have +x permissions. Do a: >> >> chmod 0750 /directory >> >> And see what happens. >> > > Hi Rafa, like a fool I sent that email and then worked this out > shortly after :) I'm glad you worked it out ;) > Still, if I hadn't your response was quick so I wouldn't have been > waiting long. This leads me onto a new question though; > > If user1 writes a file in folder1 will user2 be made the default group > owner, is there a way of enforcing this and with the required > privileges (r for files, rx for directories?). Ownership doesn't change just by creating files. Ownership of a file is set to the user that creates that file, no matter where the file is. Obviously, root can change file ownership ... so treat him well ;) In any case, try it out yourself. Create the files and see what happens ;) > User1 accesses folder1 over smb so I could set up a create mask but > other folders accessed by users1 not via smb (ssh, rsync etc) I still > want user2 to have read only access. Can you implement smb style > create masks at a file system level? Samba is a different story (but related), you can create masks, set default permissions, ... I usually recommend O'Reilley's Samba book because it starts off with a very simple config and then complicates it little by little. HTH Rafa