[KLUG Members] samba directory settings

Adam Tauno Williams adam at morrison-ind.com
Wed Dec 1 15:43:29 EST 2004


> > You can also
> > force group = users
> > for instnance to make the group owner ship of all created files to be the
> group
> > users rather that the users actuall primary group (assuming these are
> > different).
> This part I don't.  
> What good is it if I force everything to belong to group "users"? 
> Wouldn't I have to also assign everybody to that group somehow?  Is that
> some sort of default group that everybody already belongs to?  Alas, I
> don't do much with groups in Linux so I don't quite get it yet.

The users don't actually need to be members of said group,  it just thunks the
smbd process to create files in the context of that group.  It doesn't need to
be "users", just whatever might be appropriate.


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