Hey Chris,
samba has a share parameter called "force group" what lets people
log on to the share as themselves but their primary group is changed to
match the share. If you set the umask to make sure your files are
read/writable by the group ("defumask" for ftp, "create mask" for samba)
you should be able to ensure that everyone has access to the they stuff
they need to. I'd imagine the simplest course is to use "force group" to
make everyone logging onto that share take on the ftp group.
M.
P.S. There is also a "force user" option for samba that does a simialar
thing but in my opinion it's best to let people keep their own userid
where ever possible. But you know what they say about opinions... :)
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Chris McGlasson wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have a customer running a linux box as an FTP/File Server running Samba
> for files services. Basically this customer has clients that FTP files to
> their linux box from remote sites, and use the file services to pull those
> files on to their local PC's.
>
> These files that are uploaded are very large (100's of megabytes each) and
> will require them to be deleted on a daily basis (that is deleted off of
> the linux box). I have Samba and FTP running just fine. I can see the
> directories of the FTP users as well as see the files that they have
> uploaded. The problem I am running into is simply this...THEY CANNOT
> DELETE THE FILES BECAUSE THEY ARE OWNED BY THE USER WHO UPLOADED THE FILE.
>
> I am stumped on how to assign proper ownership rights to the people that
> work with the files on the local network. When they go to delete the
> files off of the Linux box, they get a "Permission Denied" error (due to
> the files being owned by the FTP user). I would appreciate any ideas that
> you might have in resolving this dilema.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
> Chris McGlasson
> Senior Systems Engineer
> Lightspeed Technologies, Inc.
> http://www.ltinetworks.com
>
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