From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 18 01:00:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 936DB16A4CE for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 01:00:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout2.pacific.net.au (mailout2.pacific.net.au [61.8.0.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C589043D39 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 01:00:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd.org@carmoda.com) Received: from mailproxy2.pacific.net.au (mailproxy2.pacific.net.au [61.8.0.87])i3I80Q5v007143; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 18:00:26 +1000 Received: from carmoda.com (ppp1E95.dsl.pacific.net.au [203.143.244.149]) i3I80EHV004222; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 18:00:25 +1000 Message-ID: <4082377D.9010600@carmoda.com> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 18:08:29 +1000 From: "freebsd.org@carmoda.com" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Risdon References: <4080E09D.5030601@carmoda.com> <4080E48A.7040201@circlesquared.com> <4080E845.5010701@carmoda.com> <4080F3ED.7020408@circlesquared.com> <4080F641.1030805@circlesquared.com> In-Reply-To: <4080F641.1030805@circlesquared.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about SAMBA shared directory and file permissions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 08:00:42 -0000 i found out a very important thing. one is best off having the top directory owned by the group you want to have access. mine was owned by wheel. no problem for those of us in that particular group! Peter Risdon wrote: > Peter Risdon wrote: > >> >> There's a useful guide to configuring samba at: >> >> http://hr.oregon.edu/davidrl/samba/server.html > > > > Whoops. > > http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba/server.html > > PWR. >