file group keeps chaning when writing via samba share

[SibLiant]

Hi,

I’m running Debian Etch; Apache2; Samba. I’ve shared /var/www in Samba and I’m trying to develop on my laptop running XP. I’ve ran:

Sudo chown -r parker:www-data /var/www

Sometimes when I write to a file under /var/www , the group will change to parker and then apache can’t serve the file. Can anyone tell me why this is happing and how to fix it? I’m hoping it’s just a simple problem of my inexperience with Linux. Thanks.

[Legolasz]

On the apache conf file what are the User:group ownership? www-data?

Try putting as parker and www-data in the apache file.

Regards,
Lego