samba - Oct 2002 - Please help, going mad with permissions

Dear SAmba

Sorry to trouble you again but here is my problem.

I want to have a directory writeable only for users in a unix group
"accounts"

so i need to do two things.

1. Create the group and user in linux
2. Create the relevant masks for the samba share for this directory

so i do this:

1 # mkdir /dev/accounts
2. # chgrp accounts /dev/accounts
3. # chmod 0770 /dev/accounts                 ##i think these are right for
Owner & group ###

in my smb.conf

[accounts]
browseable = yes
path = /dev/accounts
read only = no
write list = @accounts
create mask = 770
directory mask = 770

i have added a user to the /etc/groups file using vi to the accounts group

from my windowsnt4 pc

i attach to the network share ok
if i attempt to create a new folder i am told that i may not be able to
access files under it
if i attempt to create a file under the share i get access denied.



what chmod to i need on the directory and what "masks" are needed in
the
smb.conf, i seem to be going round in circles!!!

i know this is so so simple but it is driving me nuts.

kind regards
rod

On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 07:58, rod@newtonhall.co.uk wrote:
> 1 # mkdir /dev/accounts
> 2. # chgrp accounts /dev/accounts
> 3. # chmod 0770 /dev/accounts                 ##i think these are right for
> Owner & group ###
this looks right to me..
except is is weird to have a share in the dev tree...
are you sure that is what you want - usually that is reserved for
hardware devices.
 
> in my smb.conf
> 
> [accounts]
> browseable = yes
i think this is unnecessary but not harmful
> path = /dev/accounts
> read only = no
set this to yes
> write list = @accounts
i don't think you need the writ list line and set read only to
> create mask = 770
> directory mask = 770
> 
> 
> 
> what chmod to i need on the directory and what "masks" are needed
in the
> smb.conf, i seem to be going round in circles!!!
you've almost got it - don't stress out. 
> i know this is so so simple but it is driving me nuts.

[accounts]
browseable = yes
path = /dev/accounts
read only = no
write list = @accounts
create mask = 770
directory mask = 770
------------------------------
Try it with with:
read only = yes
 It still my not work the way you want, but at least having a write list
will make sense.

Patrick

It maybe isn't the problem now, but it may be that your OS has a cron job,
utility, or patch  that modifies the permissions of files/directories under
"/dev". This is because it may assume that all files/directories there
are devices. For that reason alone, I would definitely find another location for
this share.

Just my 2 cents, and good luck!

Troy
>>> <ascannel@fws.gov> 10/18/02 02:13PM >>>
[accounts]
path = /dev/accounts