Samba Permission problems...

Gattancha · 07-07-2003, 06:27 AM

I've got an odd problem with Samba..

Im trying to set permission levels on one of my shares to RWX for User & Group, and RX for Others, which i understand to be 0775

But whenever i create a file over the share (on winxp -sp1), the permissions are being set as RWX for users, and R for Group/Others...

Here's my code...

Quote:

[Apache]
path = /srv/www/htdocs
comment = Apache Server
writeable = yes
force create mask = 775
force directory mask = 775
force user = root
force group = root
public = yes
guest ok = yes
wide links = no

Anyone got any ideas?

david_ross · 07-07-2003, 12:43 PM

Try:
force create mask = 0775
force directory mask = 0775

Gattancha · 07-07-2003, 01:35 PM

Tried that too, unfortunatly it doent work

david_ross · 07-07-2003, 01:46 PM

What about:
create mask = 0775
directory mask = 0775

Have you restarted samba since the config change?

Gattancha · 07-07-2003, 03:27 PM

Yep

Tried stop/start & restart too

The rest of the config works fine, just these damn file permissions...

The Samba config works fine, but when ever i create/copy a file into the shared folder from WinXP, I have to goto my linux box and reset the permissions so that folk can see it when the browse my site

david_ross · 07-07-2003, 03:29 PM

Try using the sticky bit on the htdocs directory.
man chmod

mlp68 · 07-07-2003, 11:49 PM

No, that's not the problem. The problem ist that the samba protocol cannot map the WIn-based permissions accurately to Unix ones. When you samba-mount the share, you can add any missing info ( e.g. uid, gid, etc) at this point, and "fake" the permissions with the fmask and dmask options. man smbmount will tell you more. It'll take some try and error.

See another post
[URL=http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=70838[/URL]

with some similar stuff.

Hope it helps,

mlp