At work we recently changed our file server from windows to Fedora, one interesting situation has come up. On one of the shared folders, there is an excel document that several people update prior to a Wednesday meeting. This morning the first user edited the file, and when she saved it set the permissions thusly: -rwxr--r-- 1 corda users 16896 2008-07-09 08:30 Weekly Status Report.xls Obviously, no one else could update the file, so I went in and did a chmod 775 and the next person could edit it, but once she saved the permissions were changed again to: -rwxr--r-- 1 grunow users 16896 2008-07-09 09:00 Weekly Status Report.xls
Essentially, whenever someone with permissions to that folder updates and saves a file, it sets them as the owner and changes the permissions so that no one but that editor has write access. I'm having a tough time finding out how to fix this, any advice on what to check would be appreciated. For what it's worth, the folders are shared via Samba, with access given via webmin on a username by username basis. These folders are then mapped on the XP clients where the users make their modifications to the files. -- John D. Mort http://john.mort.net _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jun 4 - Sqeak! and eToys Jul 2 - KVM (Tenative) Aug 6 - Zenos Sep 3 - TBD
