[Tfug] samba & shared directories

Anthony Steckman tfug@tfug.org
Sun Dec 22 01:05:01 2002


It happens, to the best of us.


+ I'm probably responding to some of what was said below:

. Date: 21 Dec 2002 16:10:51 -0700
. Subject: Re: [Tfug] samba & shared directories
. From: Samuel Hart <criswell@geekcomix.com>
. Reply-To: tfug@tfug.org
. To: tfug@tfug.org
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. Actually, it turned out to be a far simpler (and more embarrassing)
. solution.
. 
. I hadn't set the path SUID to the group in question (/usr2/lab was not
. SUID to lab). So it was an underlying OS problem and had nothing to do
. with samba.
. 
. So, I was basically making my problem a lot more compicated than it
. needed to be ;-)
. 
. On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 14:58, Anthony Steckman wrote:
. > 
. > Okay.
. > 
. > Crazy, untested idea #2:
. > 
. > Assuming foonly and hart are actual declared members of a group called 
. > lab, "force group = %G" might work.
. > 
. > I found a sample smb.conf online where "force group = groupname" was 
. > commented out and replaced with the suggested declaration. Another 
. > resource defines %G as "Primary group of %U" where %U is the "Username 
. > the client requested at session setup".
. 
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