Hello.

I have a folder that has permissions 2770 (drwxrws---), this folder contains other folders and files which all have the same permissions. When a new file or folder is created I want them to obtain these permissions automatically.

What is the best way to do this? The server is only a samba server with a few samba shares.

The reason I want to change this is because when a user creates a new folder or file, none of the other users have write access to it.

Thanks alot for any help.

Regs
Craig

I'm assuming this is a vfat directory you're talking about....anyway, the umask option in fstab which will give the persmissions of "rwxrwx---" is 'umask=007'.

Hi.

Naa it's a ext3 directory which is shared out to windows and other linux clients through samba.

But the info you gave me is great, I didn't think of doing it in fstab.

Thanks alot for your help!!

>Craig : )

If it's an ext3 directory, then the umask option won't work in fstab. That option is only useful for non-unix filesystems that don't have permissions that linux can use.......sounds like you need to set the permissions through samba........

Don't know if this will help, but for Windows, there is a shareware app called Folder Guard, which will allow you to set permissions on any FAT32/NTFS filesystem with greater control than NTFS does natively. It allows you to hide files and folder, restrict access to the system, allows users to only access their files, etc.

You might want to read the faq page for more info

I remember there beeing a way of letting files automaticaly obtain a certain umask...or was this only for the files created by one specific user

me::rtfm(); ^^