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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Scenario. An administrator sets up a Samba
share named Marketing that points to /home/marketing. The group marketing
is given writes to the share and users are added to the group marketing.
The force group option has been set to the group marketing. (in this case
it was set to +marketing). The users use the share fine and everything
works ok.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Next the administrator sets up a share called
'system' and points it to the root directory { / }. When the
administrator accesses a file.. say /home/marketing/%the_file ... by using the
administrative share called 'system' it of course changes the ownership of the
file and thus the permissions. In this case, marketing users are no longer
able to write to the file.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So, in what direction does the answer lie?
Sticky bits...whatever they are...What about inherited rights?
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Do file permissions HAVE to be used? Can't
one just use permissions based on directories...( group marketing has full
rights to this folder no matter WHO the creator or owner) If the
directory was CHMODed to say 77x would that do it? (oh..nevermind...the
directory is already at 775)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would hate to think that the solution will be to
migrate from Netware to NT instead of to Linux.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>BTW, the testing is being done on a RedHat 6.1 box
with Samba 2.0.7. Would a different version of RedHat work any
better? Or an updated Samba version?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I know...how about an NTLUG presentation on Samba
as it pertains to file sharing, rights and administration in the
workplace. :)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-Richard -- still without a static IP address but
with a semi-permanently assigned DHCPed address...go
figure!</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>