Samba Users & Log File Issue
 

Samba Users & Log

I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 with samba enabled in it, every staff member has his own UserId & Password. I'm using user nobody and nogroup so may the shared files can be used by every one. Now the problem is that i'm also making samba audit log by Sambauser & Ip address and it's making with log with user nobody.

I have changed my shared files with user & group root by doing this my log is working fine i mean that it's making with the user name, but the problem is if User A is making any file so it's read only to User B.

Kindly let me know the solution.

You can add main group of user A as supplimentry (secondary) group for user B. It should possibly solve the pb.
To check user A's primary group:
To add user B to main group of user A:

is it necessary to change shared files permission from no body to root ??

and i have a group named Admin-Department,User A & User B are the member of that group but still i'm facing the same problem??

and i have more than 100 users so what should i do ??

- Is Admin-Department a primary group for both A and B?
- If Admin-Department is primary for both, then does file(s), created by A, have full permissions for group?

Well, if addition of a user to main group of the file solves the problem, then you can add all 100 users to the group (don't worry, a simple script will do that).

User A & User B both are the members of that group but i dont have any idea about primary groups..??

& i have given User=root & group=root to my files, and if User A created any files is read only to user B and both are the members of same group.

I have created few groups just like admin-department, Tax-Users, Audit-Users & Corporate-Users and i have added my users to these groups but i don't have any idea about primary group,

can i do this that first i create new group and add all user to that group and make it users primary group, will it solve my problem ??

First of all post output of:
You can see, if a file has root:root as owner and group, and group has only read permission, then how files can be copied? Files created by user A should have A as owner and A's primary group as main group for the file. Then if user B wants to copy that file, then B should be in main group of the file OR the file should have read/write permissions for group as well others.

Once check manual of following: chmod and chown

These are the outputs and as you can see that both are the members of Taxusers & Admin-department groups

Add user mahmood to primary group of majid, as:
After that, using user A i.e. majid, create a file sample.txt (don't change file's owner or group), and do:
Then try user B i.e. mahmood, to access or copy the sample.txt file and let's know the result.

I did the same thing as you said, i can copy, move and delete the file, but files are still read only.

File permissions do not change if you move or copy them, but it remains what was set originally.

If a file has read only permissions, then first change it to r/w and then try to copy or move. Also check user A i.e. majid's umask value, becuase all files created by majid will get their permissions assigned on basis of umask value set in majid's profile.

I have changed my Unix File & Directory mode to 755 to 777 and the read only issued is resolved, but now my samba recycle is not working..

Do not change permissions of each & every file to 777, but only for those files which you want to give full permission to user B i.e. mehmood. Revert change for any other files.