On 04Feb2008 18:13, aragonx@xxxxxxxxxx <aragonx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | > Presently when somebody creates a directory, it's 0755. i.e. not | > writable by the group. I have a file server and would like to change this | > default property such that when somebody created a directory it's 0775. | > i.e. | > writable by the group. For my file server, this is a must as users of the | > same group need to be able to edit each others folders. Thanks. | | You say file server. Does that mean you are using Samba? If so, I | believe you would want to add a line like this: | | force directory mode = 0770 Or 755, to match the other examples. | You would want to add this to your smb.conf file (found in /etc/samba on | my system). Then you would probably need to restart Samba by doing | something like this: | /etc/init.d/smb restart It's enough to kill the particular smdb serving the client machine, which can be obtained from the smbstatus command. We tend to prefer this when fixing a problem for an individual user. Of course, a restart is the sensible thing to fix a fproblem affecting all the users. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/
