[Jayce]

The Situation: I have a "Public" folder shared out via Samba that I use for transferring certain things to other computers. This Public folder is assigned 775 rights to the folder + all items inside with the owner being jason and the group being sambashare.

The Problem: When I drop a new file in, it takes on "jason:jason" rights instead of "jason:sambashare" rights. It also doesn't get assgined 775 permissions either.

Solution Needed: I want to drop files into this public folder and for them to take on the EXACT permissions/rights as the parent folder (aka the public folder).

[kmote]

The force create mode is the minimum permissions set so you could get 777.
In smb.conf you need
force user = jason
force group = sambashare
force create mode = 0775

Both the user and the group need to exist so create the sambashare group if you have not done already.

[Jayce]

Right. But I'm not asking about how to do it in Samba. Sure, Public is a Samba shared folder, but Public is a folder on my LOCAL computer, so when I drop files into it it takes permissions of jason:jason (user on the Linux PC).

If I transfer things to/from the Public folder from the other computers, it's fine, because THEN I'm working through Samba. But I'm on my local computer, so Samba has no involvement from the perspective I'm working with right now.

[kmote]

You could try mounting the samba share. eg. /media/shares/myshare is your shared directory so something like `mount -t cifs //127.0.0.1/myshare /home/jason/myshare`. I'm not entirely confident but there's no harm in trying. In the mean time, I'll try and think of something better, or maybe someone else has an idea already.

[Jayce]

I don't mount the drives via a command. I added the drives to fstab so they all mount upon startup. So my secondary 250gb drive, which I consider my network drive since it houses all of the Samba shares (including public) gets mounted upon bootup. The thing is, to ME on this computer, the hard drive is local... whereas to other users, it's a network drive to them. So my dilemma isn't Samba, it's local. Thanks for the input, though. Hopefully there's a way around this! Otherwise I'll just have to hit "apply permissions to files inside" on the permissions tab of that folder...

[Dr.House]

Originally Posted by Jayce

I don't mount the drives via a command. I added the drives to fstab so they all mount upon startup. So my secondary 250gb drive, which I consider my network drive since it houses all of the Samba shares (including public) gets mounted upon bootup. The thing is, to ME on this computer, the hard drive is local... whereas to other users, it's a network drive to them. So my dilemma isn't Samba, it's local. Thanks for the input, though. Hopefully there's a way around this! Otherwise I'll just have to hit "apply permissions to files inside" on the permissions tab of that folder...

Well you could make a cron script that runs on bootup and or periodically (if you dont shut down alot, i assume you dont since your on linux) and it would just chmod the folder recursively every-so-often (once an hour/half-hour? its a simple operation so its not like it would kill your resources, I imagine)

Dont know if this is feasible to you, seemed to pop into my head tho :-P

[Dr.House]

Originally Posted by Dr.House

Well you could make a cron script that runs on bootup and or periodically (if you dont shut down alot, i assume you dont since your on linux) and it would just chmod the folder recursively every-so-often (once an hour/half-hour? its a simple operation so its not like it would kill your resources, I imagine)

Dont know if this is feasible to you, seemed to pop into my head tho :-P

I take it you had some/no luck with this?

[Jayce]

I just don't use the public folder that much to warrant a script to run automatically. It was one of those things that wasn't a big deal, but I was still curious enough to see "if it was possible." Thanks for the input, though!