samba - Feb 2006 - inherit groups?

I'm wondering if there is a better way of doing this.

Right now we have a share (ShareA) with three sub directories in it 
(Dir1, Dir2, Dir3) that have specific groups set for each directory. We 
would like to have newly created files and/or directories inherit the 
parent directories group.  Right now were using SETGID bit to 
accomplish this.

Is there a better way to accomplish this via samba?  We are using 
create mask and directory mask in smb.conf to ensure permission are 
consistent.  However that doesn't seem to affect groups ownership.  We 
also used "inherit permission = yes" but that also doesn't fill
the
need.

Is there something similar to 'inherit owner" but for groups?

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 04:07:01PM -0600, Marc Donnelly
wrote:
> I'm wondering if there is a better way of doing this.
> 
> Right now we have a share (ShareA) with three sub directories in it 
> (Dir1, Dir2, Dir3) that have specific groups set for each directory. We 
> would like to have newly created files and/or directories inherit the 
> parent directories group.  Right now were using SETGID bit to 
> accomplish this.
> 
> Is there a better way to accomplish this via samba?  We are using 
> create mask and directory mask in smb.conf to ensure permission are 
> consistent.  However that doesn't seem to affect groups ownership.  We 
> also used "inherit permission = yes" but that also doesn't
fill the
> need.
> 
> Is there something similar to 'inherit owner" but for groups?
Not currently. I deliberately didn't add "inherit group" because
the SETGID bit in UNIX means the same thing. Anything I added
in smbd would just do the same thing, only slower :-). I could
add it if people would find it easier to set the same thing on
a per-share basis without having to mess with UNIX permissions,
although as I say it'll be slower.

I'm curious as to why this isn't working for you. Can you
give more details ?

Jeremy.