Re: [Samba] Please help, going mad with permissions

2002-10-18 Thread Troy.A Johnson
It maybe isn't the problem now, but it may be that your OS has a cron job, utility, or patch that modifies the permissions of files/directories under "/dev". This is because it may assume that all files/directories there are devices. For that reason alone, I would definitely find another locati

Re: [Samba] Please help, going mad with permissions

2002-10-18 Thread ascannel
[accounts] browseable = yes path = /dev/accounts read only = no write list = @accounts create mask = 770 directory mask = 770 -- Try it with with: read only = yes It still my not work the way you want, but at least having a write list will make sense. Patrick -- To

Re: [Samba] Please help, going mad with permissions

2002-10-18 Thread Bradley W. Langhorst
On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 07:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1 # mkdir /dev/accounts > 2. # chgrp accounts /dev/accounts > 3. # chmod 0770 /dev/accounts ##i think these are right for > Owner & group ### this looks right to me.. except is is weird to have a share in the dev tree... are y

[Samba] Please help, going mad with permissions

2002-10-18 Thread rod
Dear SAmba Sorry to trouble you again but here is my problem. I want to have a directory writeable only for users in a unix group "accounts" so i need to do two things. 1. Create the group and user in linux 2. Create the relevant masks for the samba share for this directory so i do this: 1 #