samba - May 2005 - My public folder is not public

Hi dudes,

I have a share in linux Mandrake 9.1.

Workstations are Windows 98, XP and 2000 Pro.

My public share in smb.conf is:

[publica]
available = yes
browseable = yes
comment = public folder
guest ok = yes
path = /home/public
read only = no
writable = yes

The problem is:

The user Bob open any folder located in publica share, then create a
new folder and insert new content.

The user Magie open the folder created by Bob and your content is
invisible for Magie and others users. Only Bob can view the
contents!!!

Help me please!

ThanX!

On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 16:38 -0300, Hernani Donato wrote:
> [publica]
> available = yes
> browseable = yes
> comment = public folder
> guest ok = yes
> path = /home/public
> read only = no
> writable = yes
> 
> The problem is:
> 
> The user Bob open any folder located in publica share, then create a
> new folder and insert new content.
> 
> The user Magie open the folder created by Bob and your content is
> invisible for Magie and others users. Only Bob can view the
> contents!!!
See 'force user' and 'force group' for one possible solution, if
you
don't want to retain ownership information.

On our temporary data transfer shares I just force a common owner for
the files.  Works a treat.

Alternatively, you can use the 'create mask' and 'directory
mask' to
ensure the defaults allow group/other access too.

Cheers,

Mark

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Mark Cooke <mpc@star.sr.bham.ac.uk>