Hi All

I have a FC3 running as a samba server. I have two people on XP pro machines that are sharing a directory. Both want to be able to read and write to the others files. If Person1 writes a Word file and then Person 2 tries to write/edit it, it gives a read only message. Here is my smb.conf share section

[private]
comment = private directory
path = /directory/private
valid users = Person1 Person2
public = no
writable = yes
printable = no
read only = no
browseable = yes
create mask = 0777

I have Person1 and Person2 in the same group and the private directory. What am I missing? Could it be who owns the private directory (which is Person1)?

Also, if Person1 creates a directory under the private directory it gives rwxr-xr-x permissions. How can i force it to make it writable? Many thanks!!!

Easiest idea is to use the force group = directive, place both users as members of that group and change the file group owner to the chosen group.
File permissions only need to be 660
Directory permissions 770

[private]
comment = private directory
path = /directory/private
valid users = +users
force group = users
writable = yes
printable = no
browseable = yes
available = yes
create mask = 0660
directory mask = 0770

do chown -R .users /directory/private
and add both users to the "users" group

"users" can be any group that exists on your system that has no special priveleges..

You will get write/read-only issues when a file is considered open by samba and a second person tries to open it. Do smbstatus to see open files and see if this is another problem.

Thank you. Worked like a charm.