How to force group ownership on samba share?
I have a samba server running on ubuntu server 12.04. Only one folder /sharetest
is shared with group storageusers
, and users user1
, user2
, wowza
are members of it. Here is smb.conf
#======================= Global Settings =====================================
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string = Samba Server %v
netbios name = ubuntu
security = user
map to guest = bad user
dns proxy = no
#============================ Share Definitions ==============================
[Storage]
path = /sharetest
browsable = yes
writeable = yes
guest ok = no
valid users = @storageusers
create mask = 0775
directory mask = 0775
A second ubuntu server 12.04 will be using above mentioned share. The share on the second server is automounted via fstab line
//192.168.1.12/Storage /share smbfs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,gid=0 0 0
File and folders created inside share folder on the second server have ownership of user wowza
and group wowza
. I assume because of this other share users do not have access to writing or deleting files and folders. Is there a setting for samba server that will force all files and folders created on share to have group ownership set to storageusers
instead of user's primary group?
Solution 1:
I was able to find the answer about ten minutes after posting this. Source: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/ownership-on-new-files-in-group-samba-share-set-badly-898489/
chgrp storageusers /sharetest && chmod g+s /sharetest