Best practices for managing file permissions in SMB network

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Best practices for managing file permissions in SMB network

by Benjamin Jackson :: Rate this Message:

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Hi all,

I'm running a SMB network with OSX and Windows XP, using SharePoints
to setup my shares (though I could probably edit smb.conf if the need
arose). Our shares are almost all on external HDs.

We have four users here at the office, and everyone needs access to
the files in the share. However, what ends up happening is that one
user will for example create a Photoshop document, and no one else can
overwrite it.

I have a basic understanding of users and groups, and can easily put
everyone in the same group, but I don't know of any way to control the
permissions that are set on newly created files. What's the best way
to go about this? Thanks in advance for any help.

- Ben

Re: Best practices for managing file permissions in SMB network

by Jorge Bastos :: Rate this Message:

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you have an option to add your share, create mask = ??
if i remember..


----- Original Message -----
From: "Benjamin Jackson" <bhjackson@...>
To: <smb-clients@...>
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 4:04 PM
Subject: Best practices for managing file permissions in SMB network


> Hi all,
>
> I'm running a SMB network with OSX and Windows XP, using SharePoints
> to setup my shares (though I could probably edit smb.conf if the need
> arose). Our shares are almost all on external HDs.
>
> We have four users here at the office, and everyone needs access to
> the files in the share. However, what ends up happening is that one
> user will for example create a Photoshop document, and no one else can
> overwrite it.
>
> I have a basic understanding of users and groups, and can easily put
> everyone in the same group, but I don't know of any way to control the
> permissions that are set on newly created files. What's the best way
> to go about this? Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> - Ben
>
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