[NTLUG:Discuss] force group ownership

[Rob Holland (INSI)]

1. Make sure the directory belongs to the planning group.  I assume its
owner is root.
chown -R root.planning /home/planning

2. make new directories and files created by members of the group writeable
by the group and readable by others.  Samba will also have to be configured
this way (see step 5 below).
chmod 2775 /home/planning

3. Check that the default umask for regular users (i.e. the true side of the
if-else-fi) in /etc/profile is 002.

4. Check or add the Samba definition for the share.  I use linuxconf.  Go to
config; networking; server tasks; samba file server; disk shares; add, and
fill in the following fields:
share name = planning
comment = shared files
enabled = yes
browseable = yes
directory = /home/planning
public access = yes
writeable = yes

5. The next set of options is not available in linuxconf (atleast they
weren't under RH 6.2), so edit /etc/smb.conf.  Add a section after the
section added by linuxconf.  These lines allow the rules we set up for the
shared files directory to be used by Windows clients.  By default, Samba
would override these rules.
create mask = 0775
directory mask = 0775
security mask = 0777  #allow win clients to set all perms on files
directory security mask = 0777 #allow win clients to set all perms on dirs
inherit permissions = yes  #carries forward prmissions from /home/planning

That should do it...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bobby Wrenn" <bjwrenn at augustmail.com>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 4:03 PM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] force group ownership


> For one of the sysadmin types.
>
> I have a directory (/home/planning). I have a group of users named
> planning. I need to force the group attribute for files in this
> directory to the planning group. I need for anyone in the planning group
> to be able to edit the files in the directory. The files need to be read
> only for everyone on the LAN.
>
> Just to make it interesting, this is all happening on a Samba share.
>
> TIA
> Bobby
>
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