Making drive read write

dutchboysais · 05-23-2008, 03:19 PM

I have a hard disk on my ubuntu 7.1 server that I use as a public backup. I share the drive with samba and to allow users to see the drive i have to chmod -R it as root almost once an hour.

fstab entry:

/dev/hdb1 /backup ext3 defaults 0 0

The samba config:

[Backup]
comment = Public Backup Folder
path = /backup/public
write list = user
public = yes
readonly = No
writeable = yes
browseable = yes
create mask = 0700
directory mask = 0700

Thanks
JR

MS3FGX · 05-24-2008, 12:30 PM

So the problem is that files are being created by various users and the permissions are starting to conflict?

Is there a reason you need individual users? If not, you could simply use the "force user" option to make all connections appear to come from a specific user.

dutchboysais · 05-25-2008, 08:35 AM

Thanks for your reply.

I also should have said that I have sbackup running as root backing up my server to this drive as well. But I know why I have this problem now. Any ideas on how to fix it? Would changing the destination folder for the server backup from the root of the drive to a subdirectory work?