samba - Apr 2004 - windows permissions

G'day All,
After searching the archive I am no closer to achieving what I want. 
I've seen lots of posts that suggest this can be achieved but the 
methods used don't work for me. I won't pretend I understand linux or 
samba permissions because every time I think I've got it, I turn out to 
be wrong. So here goes.

Let's say I have 3 users & 2 groups.
each group has it's own directory.
user1 is a member of grpA & grpB (needs rwx access to grpA & grpB 
directory & all files).
user2 is a member of grpA (needs rwx access to only grpA directory & all 
files.
user3 is a member of grpB(needs rwx access to only grpB directory & all 
files.

When a user creates a file I want the file to have -rwxrwx--- (0770) and 
the group to ?own? that file so others in the group can edit it. No 
matter what I try any files created belong to the user with -rwxrw---- 
(0760).

Do I need to change umask?
How should the groups share be configured in smb.conf?
Are there any other changes in smb.conf required?

Thank you in anticipation,
Lindsay

On Saturday 17 April 2004 17:17, build wrote:
> When a user creates a file I want the file to have -rwxrwx--- (0770) and
> the group to ?own? that file so others in the group can edit it. No
> matter what I try any files created belong to the user with -rwxrw----
> (0760).
So suppose we have two shares A and B which have the unix permissions set up 
like this:

drwxrws--- root grpA  A
drwxrws--- root grpB  B

Now every file or group created in that directory will get the respective 
group and the file will be owned by the user. Works perfect here. You might 
still want to adjust the force* settings in your smb.conf if you don't like 
the permissions but file ownership should be fine with just the 's' bit
set.

Like for having all files 770 youd set force create mode = 0770. See the 
smb.conf manpage for details on the various force* settings.


HTH

Alex