Hi, I have a Mandrake 8.0 box running Samba 2.2.0 with several samba shares that can only be accessed by specific groups. For example - the accounting share can only be accessed by members of the accounting group. My problem is that whenever a user copies a file into a share, (from a Win98 client), the file is given the ownership:group of the individual user - thus locking out all of the other members of the group from accessing the file. I want all of the files in the accounting share, (for example), to maintain the permissions of the accounting group. How is this done? snip from smb.conf [accounting] path = /data/accounting valid users = @accountants comment = Accounting Dir public = no read only = no writable = yes inherit permissions = yes create mode = 770 force create mode = 770 directory mode = 770 force directory mode = 770 group = @accountants force group = @accountants

Try setting the SGID bit for your share. For example, if you want the normal (user,group,all) permissions to be 770, do: chmod 2770 /data/accounting The "2" sets the SGID bit, which should force all files that get placed/created in /data/accounting to be owned by the accounting group, not the group to which the creator of the file belongs.

Just as a follow-up: The above assumes, of course, that the UNIX group ownership of the /data/accounting directory has been set to the accounting group using the "chown" command.

That did it... Many thanks!!!