Hello,

I have a RH 8 File server using Samba for my WIN98 SE clients. All is well with the network, however -- - -

I have one program that all users of the network access, a datbase program. I have changed file permission to 777, but when any user uses the database and changes a file, the particular data file that gets changed somehow changes file permissions to 755 and makes the "owner" the last user to edit the file.

In Samba I simply have the share avilable to all. Would it help if I made a share that was validated by a group instead of all users? I'm getting tierd of having to cahnge the file permission back to 777 every time a different user edits a file.

Please help! - Thanks, Bill

try setting this option to your share declaration:

create mask = 0777

What database software are you using?

It's a Foxpro database application. PoerChurch Plus. It tracks demographics and financial data. I don't run it from the linux box, just access the files. We run WIN98SE on all our clients...

I have not yet been able to try "born4linux's" suggestion as I am away from the office, but I will try it as soon as I get back. Did some research on "create mask" and it made sense to me.