[LUNI] File Permission Problems

[EJ Finneran]

You might want to look into the 'force user' and 'force group' variable 
for the share you are talking about.

EJ

Fhealy at aol.com wrote:
> I came across this problem recently and there is probably a simple 
> solution to it.
> 
> I built a new Linux file server running SAMBA that supports a network of 
> windows clients.  There is a directory (\public) that is designated to 
> be shared by all users connecting with samba with a mapped P: drive.  I 
> created the directory and set permissions to 777.  This directory 
> contains two other directories (/TLCS and /TLCSAPPS) that contain a 
> bunch of network applications.  Unfortunately, I only have the 
> capability to copy files our to Windows Workstations.  When I copy the 
> files and re-copy them back to the new file server, then end up as owned 
> by whatever user I use for the transfer.  Other users are then unable to 
> use the network applications unless I manually reset the file 
> permissions (a tedious process).  The only thing that has so far 
> occurred to be would be to copy the files into an archive on the linux 
> system, copy the archive off to the Windows system, restore the archive 
> to the new Linux system and open the archive to copy the files.  Would 
> this preserve the file permissions?  Can you think of anything else?
> 
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