How do I create a shared folder?

[jimwon]

Hi,

I have set up Ubuntu 10.04 with a data partition mounted as /share that I would like to make available to all users.

I have only managed to do this so far by using chmod and chown, can I flag the folder so that all users can read and write from it automatically? I'm looking for something a bit like "Ignore Ownership" on a Mac.

Any help greatly appreciated

[Roxoff]

chmod is how you do this. Try 'chmod o+rw <directory>', or even 'chmod o+rwx <directory>'.

[jimwon]

Thanks for that.

This is what I've done already, I've run:

chmod -R a+rwx /share

and

chwon -R :users /share

after creating a group called users and adding everyone to it.

This means all users can access the folder and the files within but when any user creates a new file or folder within I need to run the above commands again to make it available to all.

What I was really after is a way to apply full rights to anything put into that folder at the point of creation.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks again or your help

[romer3r]

Do you fix it ??

I am trying to do the same, I am using ACL to give full rights to a group, users can create/delete files & folders, but it some one copy a folder (drag&drop from Desktop to sharedfolder) just the owner can upadte/delete files or folder.

/etc/fstab with acl on <options> column

cd /home
sudo mkdir SharedDir
sudo groupadd sharefl
sudo usermod -G sharefl -a user1
sudo usermod -G sharefl -a user2

sudo chmod -R g+rwx SharedDir
sudo chown -R root:sharefldr SharedDir

setfacl -R -m g:sharefldr:rwx SharedDir
setfacl -R -d -m g:sharefldr:rwx SharedDir

Regards

[fachex]

I ran into the same problem with Suse Linux 12.1. In my case it was SAMBA. I applied all the permission I could in Linux, but the problem was SAMBA, so using Webmin, I gave my shared folder a samba permission 777. That fixed the problem.

[Irithori]

hi
Your contribution is appreciated, but this is an old thread. Closing