Samba Write Permissions

Cottsay · 05-12-2007, 06:47 PM

What I am trying to do is create a universal server storing everyone's home directories using Samba.

So I have 3 Fedora Core 6 computers setup:

1 Samba PDC with IDMAP
1 Samba NAS server with home directories on it
1 Samba workstation

If I mount the [homedirs] share on the NAS server from the workstation, all of the permissions lineup because of IDMAP. That was quite a struggle to do, but I did it. Now, the problem is that every time the workstation makes a write or read request, it does it under the user it was mounted using (winlogonguest). Is there a way to make it write to the file using the current user's permissions?

Here is the smb.conf entry on the NAS server:

[homedirs]
path = /nas/homedirs
browsable = no
writable = yes
read only = no
public = yes
printable = no
guest ok = yes
guest only = no

Here is the fstab entry in the workstation to mount the share:

//192.168.1.7/homedirs /home cifs rw,setuids,guest,user=winlogonguest 0 0

it mounts without a hitch...now its just those permissions...

bsdunix · 05-12-2007, 07:43 PM

I believe your looking for this:

Code:

[homedirs]
your settings here
create mask = 0600

Only the owner is read/write for files created.

Cottsay · 05-13-2007, 12:49 PM

The trick is, that all of the read/write permissions are that of the user that mounted it initially...not the user that is using it. (ex. you mount it using a guest account, if you write a new file, it is created with owner "guest") All of the permissions APPEAR correct using ls -al, but upon attempting to list a directory or access a file, it uses the "guest" permissions.