samba - Mar 2005 - Question on Inheriting Permissions

I asked this question yesterday and got some really good answers that I will
be able to use later.  My problem was that I did not ask the question in an
exact enough way.

Here is what I am trying to do:

I have a share on my Samba server called art.  The directory is owned by the
user root and the group tech doc.  I have set the permissions like this on
the directroy:

drwxrwxr_x  That is I want root to have read, write, execute.  I want the
tech doc group to have read, write, execute and I want all the orther users
to have read, write.

I have these permissions set on the directory art.  Is there a way to
configure my smb.conf so that any file that gets created in or copied to
this directory to have these permissions and, if possible, to be owned by
the above user and group?

Thanks,

Tom Naves
System Administrator
Orthodyne Electronics

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 09:38:35AM -0800, Tom Naves
wrote:
> I asked this question yesterday and got some really good answers that I
will
> be able to use later.  My problem was that I did not ask the question in an
> exact enough way.
> 
> Here is what I am trying to do:
> 
> I have a share on my Samba server called art.  The directory is owned by
the
> user root and the group tech doc.  I have set the permissions like this on
> the directroy:
> 
> drwxrwxr_x  That is I want root to have read, write, execute.  I want the
> tech doc group to have read, write, execute and I want all the orther users
> to have read, write.
> 
> I have these permissions set on the directory art.  Is there a way to
> configure my smb.conf so that any file that gets created in or copied to
> this directory to have these permissions and, if possible, to be owned by
> the above user and group?
Set the set-group-id bit on the directory to have it inherit the group
owner. I have a new parameter in SVN (will be in Samba 3.0.14) called
"inherit owner" which will cause a file to inherit it's ownership
from
the containing directory. You can also use "inherit permissions".

Jeremy.