samba - May 2000 - Problem with "force create mode" et. al.

Hi, folks.  I've got a weird situation here.  I'm sure it's
something
small, but, well, either I've been cursed by a witch doctor, or my
eyesight is getting too bad to find small problems.

Either way, I'm more than willing to be pummeled for asking such a
stupid question, as long as it helps me get it solved.

I'm replacing an NT file server with a Samba box (hooray!).  Running
Linux 6.1, freshly-compiled Samba 2.0.7 installation (not an RPM -
built it meself), like I do on several other boxes.

In order to try to maintain the proper permissions, I'm attempting to
use "force create mode" and "force directory mode" to make
sure that
files and directories under a particular share get created with group
ownership and group write permission, as well as setgid (this latter
would not be important if I could get these directives to work) so
that other people in the group can write over those files or
directories if need be.

However, for some reason, Samba doesn't seem to recognize those
parameters.  It acts like I just made them up.  What follows are the
snippet defining that share, and the error messages I get from the log
file as well as those from running 'testparm'.  Can anyone tell me
what dumb thing I'm doing wrong here?
>From smb.conf:
---snip--snip---
[Share]
  comment = Company Shares
  path = /share
  public = yes
  writable = yes
  printable = no
  write list = @src @staff
  force create group = staff
  force create mask = 0040
  force directory mask = 2040
---snip--snip---
>From the log file:
---snip--snip---
[2000/05/21 22:28:10, 2] param/loadparm.c:do_section(2481)
  Processing section "[Share]"
[2000/05/21 22:28:10, 0] param/loadparm.c:map_parameter(1681)
  Unknown parameter encountered: "force create group"
[2000/05/21 22:28:10, 0] param/loadparm.c:lp_do_parameter(2223)
  Ignoring unknown parameter "force create group"
[2000/05/21 22:28:10, 0] param/loadparm.c:map_parameter(1681)
  Unknown parameter encountered: "force create mask"
[2000/05/21 22:28:10, 0] param/loadparm.c:lp_do_parameter(2223)
  Ignoring unknown parameter "force create mask"
[2000/05/21 22:28:10, 0] param/loadparm.c:map_parameter(1681)
  Unknown parameter encountered: "force directory mask"
[2000/05/21 22:28:10, 0] param/loadparm.c:lp_do_parameter(2223)
  Ignoring unknown parameter "force directory mask"
---snip--snip---
>From testparm:
---snip--snip---
Processing section "[Share]"
Unknown parameter encountered: "force create group"
Ignoring unknown parameter "force create group"
Unknown parameter encountered: "force create mask"
Ignoring unknown parameter "force create mask"
Unknown parameter encountered: "force directory mask"
Ignoring unknown parameter "force directory mask"
---snip--snip---

Why oh why?

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Ryan Waldron wrote:
> 
> 
> However, for some reason, Samba doesn't seem to recognize those
> parameters.  It acts like I just made them up.  What follows are the
> snippet defining that share, and the error messages I get from the log
> file as well as those from running 'testparm'.  Can anyone tell me
> what dumb thing I'm doing wrong here?
> 
> >From smb.conf:
> ---snip--snip---
> [Share]
>   comment = Company Shares
>   path = /share
>   public = yes
>   writable = yes
>   printable = no
>   write list = @src @staff
>   force create group = staff
>   force create mask = 0040
>   force directory mask = 2040
> ---snip--snip---
> >From the log file:
> ---snip--snip---
> [2000/05/21 22:28:10, 2] param/loadparm.c:do_section(2481)
>   Processing section "[Share]"
> [2000/05/21 22:28:10, 0] param/loadparm.c:map_parameter(1681)
>   Unknown parameter encountered: "force create group"
I think you're using the wrong parameters. You actually want:-

force group
force create mode
force directory mode

not the ones you have above. FYI, I use a similar scheme, and my shares
are set up like this:-

[common]
          comment = general file share
          path = /usr/local/filestore/common
          valid users = @everyone
          admin users = @smbadmin
          writeable = Yes
          create mask = 0755
          force create mode = 020
          directory mask = 02775
          force directory mode = 02070
          map system = Yes
          map hidden = Yes

Group ownership on new files is decided by the directory ownership, all
directories are SGID, and all files are created group writeable, so
sub-groups of users can share files.

HTH

Mike.

Hello,
What you actually want I believe is:
force group = staff
create mask = 0040
directory mask = 2040

-Ray
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