Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 23:12:13 -0600 From: "Stephen Hilton" <nospam@hiltonbsd.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Christopher Farley" <chris@northernbrewer.com> Subject: Re: samba: "force group" problem? Message-ID: <KPEMJADBBBFPDEDOIOMBEEHHDMAA.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> In-Reply-To: <20011129155833.B3582@northernbrewer.com>
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On Thursday, November 29, 2001 3:59 PM Christopher Farley said: > > I'm running an old version of Samba (2.0.7), and can not seem to make > 'force group' work. I've got a group called 'samba', but all new files > are created owned by group 'wheel'. A level 10 debug log seems to > indicate that it is changing the GID to 'samba', but it doesn't ever really > happen. > > I've seen at least two other people describe this exact problem when > running Samba under FreeBSD, and I'm beginning to wonder if this is a > bug. > I just created a new user named "newgroup", unix group "newgroup" using Samba 2.2.1a from ports, and added a new Samba share with these parameters: [packages] path = /var/packages read only = No guest ok = No create mask = 700 directory mask = 700 force user = newgroup force group = newgroup Created several sub dirs and test files, all wound up correctly owned and correct permissions. bsdbox1# pwd /var/packages/NewFolder/NewFolder2 bsdbox1# ls -la total 3 drwx------ 2 newgroup newgroup 512 Nov 29 22:58 . drwx------ 3 newgroup newgroup 512 Nov 29 22:58 .. -rwx------ 1 newgroup newgroup 58 Nov 29 22:58 New Wave Sound.wav All seems ok here Christopher. Regards, Stephen Hilton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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