Dear samba users,
inherit permissions & g+s works great as a single share for different
groups of users.
However I've found a limitation/bug/shortcoming.....
I can't write as a specific group into a sub-sub-directory of a share.
I'll step through my working share....
I've got a share with inherit permissions = yes and g+s on directories.
I've then got a folder called Knowledge_Transfer
ls -lad Knowledge_Transfer/
drwxrwsr-x 2 root ktp 2 Mar 29 10:33 Knowledge_Transfer/
So people who have supplementary group membership of ktp group can
read/write to this directory of the share. No one else can....
This is fine.
I've then got a folder called Admin.
Inside Admin should be subdirectories of different things again, such as
Finance. No one should be able to write files into the Admin directory,
but should be able to write into directories beneath, for which theyhave
access.....
Admin looks like......
ls -lad Admin/
drwxr-sr-x 5 root root 5 Mar 29 10:47 Admin/
ls -lad Admin/Finance/
drwxrwsr-x 2 julie dsr-jaa 2 Mar 29 10:32 Admin/Finance/
So I want people in the dsr-jaa supplmentary group to write into
Finance, but no other.
But this doesn't work..... I get access denied on Windows XP client.
From the logs, it looks like it's inheriting from Admin/Finance, not
just Finance.
Is there some combination arithmetic which decides what permissions get
inherited in this circumstance, i.e. nested directories.
[2007/03/29 11:06:17, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(96)
unix_mode(Admin/Finance) inheriting from Admin
[2007/03/29 11:06:17, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(104)
unix_mode(Admin/Finance) inherit mode 42755
[2007/03/29 11:06:17, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(96)
unix_mode(Admin/Finance) inheriting from Admin
[2007/03/29 11:06:17, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(104)
unix_mode(Admin/Finance) inherit mode 42755
[2007/03/29 11:06:17, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(96)
unix_mode(Admin/Finance) inheriting from Admin
[2007/03/29 11:06:17, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(104)
unix_mode(Admin/Finance) inherit mode 42755
[2007/03/29 11:06:17, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(96)
unix_mode(Admin) inheriting from .
[2007/03/29 11:06:17, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(104)
unix_mode(Admin) inherit mode 42755
[2007/03/29 11:06:19, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(96)
unix_mode(Admin/Finance/New Text Document.txt) inheriting from
Admin/Finance
[2007/03/29 11:06:19, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(104)
unix_mode(Admin/Finance/New Text Document.txt) inherit mode 42775
[2007/03/29 11:06:19, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(96)
unix_mode(Admin/Finance/New Text Document (2).txt) inheriting from
Admin/Finance
[2007/03/29 11:06:19, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(104)
unix_mode(Admin/Finance/New Text Document (2).txt) inherit mode 42775
this was me going rightclick->new Text document on WinXP client.
it seems it's trying twice for some reason....
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers
Rob
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