[LUNI] File Permission ProblemsEJ Finneran ej at ejfinneran.comMon Jun 9 14:57:48 CDT 2003
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? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical Discussion > luni at luni.org > http://luni.org/mailman/listinfo/luni
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