On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 17:49 +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote: > Hi gang > > I've been having some trouble with Samba I can't seem to work out > myself, and I was hoping someone can help. > > The setup I have for web work is a Windows 2000 desktop (for > Dreamweaver, Ultraedit, Firefox+IE+Opera, and so on) and a debian > dev/test server with Apache and Perl (just simple CGI in this case, but > it varies). > > To work on the files I mount a Samba share as a Windows drive, and just > edit everything directly on the Linux box (the apps are all set to use > Unix newlines etc). I can save/reload to see changes, and I generally > have half a dozens shell open on the box, and various other > infrastructure so that the who boxes work more like one hybrid machine > than two separate ones (in a previous incarnation they were even > duck-taped together). > > This workflow has worked really well for me for a number of years, but I > always have trouble fiddling the samba setup to the right place. > > For some reason, saving from the Windows box seems to reset the > permissions of the files. And in this particular case, that also means > 644 (and thus not world-readable so nobody can do the CGI). > > Now, I assume that Windows is doing something funky and delete/write'ing > the file instead of overwriting the file. > > Could someone with more samba-fu than I explain if there's a way to make > these file writes behave themselves and maintain whatever permissions > they currently have?
Have you tried the force create mode = force directory mode = man smb.conf -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
