>>Subject: Permissions
>>Hi Samba people
>>
>>I have been wondering about file permissions via Samba...
>>
>> I want to set access permissions for everyone in a certain directory
(777).
>> I can't seem to get the files to be saved with world write
>> permission. Relevant section from smb.conf :
>> ----
>> [public]
>> force create mode = 0777
>
>Hi Jason,
>
>you have set the parameter in smb.conf: force create mode = 0777, you also
>need >to add force directory mode = 0777 (since samba 1.7 this one needs
>to be set >separately, otherwise you will have problems as soon as a user
>creates a new >directory).
>
Unfortunately this does not work with samba 1.9.17p4
I have
force create mode = 0770
force directory mode = 0770
in my smb.conf for all directories but creating a new empty directory with
Win95 gives the permissions
drwxr-sr-x 2 gerham Admin 512 Jun 12 14:07 New Folder
and a new text file gets the permissions
-rwxr--r-- 1 gerham Admin 0 Jun 12 14:07 New Text Document.txt
This is a pity as we use several shares as group access disks and we have
had a few confused people who can't share/read/write others work placed in
these directories.
Anyway, perhaps it is a known (albeit) bug.
Dr. Gerard Hammond
Garvan Institute of Medical Research
384 Victoria St.
Darlinghurst NSW 2010 Australia
eMail: g.hammond@garvan.unsw.edu.au
