read-only access after a few days

jacko1729 · 07-26-2005, 02:54 PM

I have a Samba server running on RH 9, and everything is fine except for this one thing. After a few days, the windows clients can only open their files in read-only mode. I have a public shared folder, with each users subfolder, and all belong to group root, and all the users belong to group root.

If I go in and do a chgrp to root for the public folder, and chmod 777, all the files are accessible for a few days, then slowly the problem re-appears.

Any ideas? and do I need to give more info? Thanks!!

Jack O'Brien

issinho · 07-26-2005, 03:53 PM

One option would be: In the smb.conf file, add a line like this: force user = {the user who owns the file}.

Esentially what you're telling Samba is, "No matter who connects, act as though they are {}." So, if you're sharing a folder that is owned by, let's call him Joe Blow, then Samba will act as though Joe signed in, authenticated and is currently accessing the share.

I don't advise you do this with root (as that is always a bad idea--security wise). But, if Root owns the folder, either change it, or go with it.

mpeg4codec · 07-26-2005, 08:09 PM

Make sure you set the create mode to something like 666. In Samba, you would add something like this to the share's definition:

create mask = 0666
directory mask = 0777

See if that does the trick.

jacko1729 · 07-27-2005, 08:50 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by issinho
One option would be: In the smb.conf file, add a line like this: force user = {the user who owns the file}.

Esentially what you're telling Samba is, "No matter who connects, act as though they are {}." So, if you're sharing a folder that is owned by, let's call him Joe Blow, then Samba will act as though Joe signed in, authenticated and is currently accessing the share.

I don't advise you do this with root (as that is always a bad idea--security wise). But, if Root owns the folder, either change it, or go with it.

Thanks! Point well taken about Root, but I will give this a try.

Jack

jacko1729 · 07-27-2005, 08:52 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by mpeg4codec
Make sure you set the create mode to something like 666. In Samba, you would add something like this to the share's definition:

create mask = 0666
directory mask = 0777

See if that does the trick.

Ahhh, I will have to check this. Thanks so much!

Jack