[Gllug] Configuring Samba permissions

[Stephen Harker]

On Wednesday 05 February 2003 11:30, Andrew Black wrote:
> Hi
> I have a share on a W2000 machine that I want to access from a Linux
> (Mandrake 9) client.
> Root has RW access to the share, but my ordinary user andrew does not.
>
> The permisions are set as follows
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         5051 Jan 19 19:48 test.txt
>
> I think I can see why I am having trouble - I assume it is the last "r-x"
> but how do I correct this.
> Can I change things to be owned by a user other than root?

When you configure the share in fstab, you can either add the options 
uid=andrew and gid=andrew to the appropriate line, or add umask=000 which 
gives -rwxrwxrwx permissions (or is it umask 777?)

I think the first is preferable :-)

STeve


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