Steve,
Here's how I got it all working:
Create the directory you want to share (you've already done this bit),
change the group ownership to be www-data and then chmod the folder
2775. You should end up with a folder whose group ownership is www-data
and whose permissions are rwxrwsr-x, ie the setgid bit is set to cause
files to be owned by the group www-data.
Here's my share options in the smb.conf file:
[WWW-Data]
comment = WWW-Data on %L
volume = WWW-Data on %L
writable = yes
path = /var/www
valid users = @www-data
force group = www-data
force create mode = 770
force directory mode = 770
create mask = 770
directory mask = 770
browseable = no
Map a drive to it and you should have a folder that is readable and
writable by anyone who is a member of the group www-data.
Note that you might want to modify the force create mode and force
directory mode settings depending on how many people access the share and
whether its on a live server (in which case the files need to be at least
world-readable as well). You may also need to check whether group-write
permissions are enabled on folders already contained within your webroot.
I hope that helps!
Andy
Dr. Andy Dawson
A.J.Dawson@Bradford.ac.uk
http://www.mossie.org
http://www.museum-explorer.org.uk
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
> Message: 18
> Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 09:57:16 -0700
> From: "Steven Sheeley" <ssheeley@myndworx.com>
> Subject: [Samba] Understanding Samba Shares
> To: samba@lists.samba.org
> Message-ID: <WorldClient-F200405120957.AA57160043@myndworx.com>
>
> I've searched every archive and read the documentation and I still can
not figure out how to do this.
>
> I've recently installed Debian 3.0 (woody) on a box and have setup
Samba on it. I can see it from my WinXP box just
> fine and I have a user on the Debian box that's the same as my user
name and PW on the WinXP box. I can read/write and
> do everything from my 'Home' share automatically setup by samba and
that's working just fine.
>
> Where I am dropping the ball is in creating another share that I as normal
user can write to. I do my web page work
> on my WinXP system and want to share the /var/www directory so that I can
directly open my php and html files with my
> editor on the WinXP system and not have to maintain two copies or more,
elsewhere and FTP them back and forth.
>
> I've setup the share using the examples I've found on the net and I
can see the share and even read the files there,
> but I can not write to them.
>
> The /var/www directory is owned by group www-data, of which my normal user
on the Debian machine is a member of.
>
> I'm completely stuck here, can anyone point me in the write [get it?
;-)] direction so that I can read and write to
> that shared
> dir with my WinXP box?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Steve
