samba shares

[tqz]

Hello all

I have added new samba shares to a samba server where the existing shares and permissions work as they should be.

However when adding a new share my permissions dont work exactly how I would like them too and not 100% sure why!
This is how I go about creating my share:-

1) Create the share directory in webmin
2) Edit the samba file with something like

[Test]
browseable = Yes
writeable = yes
path = /home/Test
create mask = 0770
directory mask = 0770
valid users = @"ABC\group"
public = yes
inherit acls = yes

3) change group ownership of the dir to ABC\group.

So only the users in the ABC\group group have access to the share (as required). They can read a file, create files, modify contents of a file, and delete directories from the Test dir. However loose files not within dir cannot be deleted and nor can a file be renamed.

Any ideas???

Thanks in advance for any help!

t.

[Dustspeck]

My Samba servers are rather old, so there might be newer information... And, I don't use Webmin...

First, you need to make sure that all files in the share are in the group
chgrp -R "ABC/group" /home/Test

As well, you could verify rights with something like
chmod -R ug=rwX,o= /home/Test

In smb.conf shares, my group shares have:
create mask = 660
force create mode = 660
directory mask = 770
force directory mode = 770

[tqz]

Hi Dustspeck and thanks for the quick response!

Yes all the files in the share were owned by the abc group and they had complete rwx permissions when I checked the rights...

I'm not too sure whether logging in and out of my computer (as i didnt want to restart the samba server as that would d/c users) or if i did something diff in my setup when creating the shares from scratch but all seems to be working fine now???

I did things slightly diff though in terms of the order of steps (whether that would make any diff I dont know)...

I created the directory Test at the command line (rather than using webmin), changed the ownership of the dir, edited the config file (keeping it simple and not adding the create or directory mask lines), changed the permissions of the dir to 770. All worked fine If i tried changing the ownership of a file to 770 before recreating the folder the problem would still exist...

Thanks again!

[coopstah13]

you have to add them as a samba user using smbpasswd command