Folder permissions problem

AlmightyCushion

I have a file server here that is running xubuntu and I'm using samba to share it out over the network to all the pcs in the house. On the samba share I have allowed the guest account to read all the shares (disabled write access because I don't want my housemate accidentally deleting something). The problem is a lot of the folders don't have read permissions for the guest account. So the my friend tries to access the folder and he gets a big access denied thrown in his face. Is there any way to change all the current folders and make all future folders created to have read only access for guest.

Tillotson

Samba can only add to existing permissions. You'll have to change the permissions of the actual files or add your friend to the relevant groups then something like this in your smb.conf should work:

[Media]
comment = Samba Share
path = /srv/samba/media
valid users = @smbusers
write list = AlmightyC
guest ok = no
browseable = yes
create mask = 0640
directory mask = 0750

I find it handiest to change my primary group to "users" and then any file I create will automatically be of that group.

AlmightyCushion

I got part of the issue sorted. It turns out the program I use for downloading was setting permissions up weird for the folders and files it created. It's doing it the right way now. So all folder and files it creates are readable by the guest account. Now I just got to fix all the folders/files it didn't set the permissions correctly for.

Naikon

Maybe try changing the ones that need fixing manually?

chmod -R 744 <broken file>

The -R option just means recursive which should work for all files under a directory, along with single broken files. Your owner should have full
access, and group read, and everybody else will also have just read access. Make sure you only run the command in the directory where your
required files are. Hope this works out for ya.

AlmightyCushion

Naikon wrote: »

Maybe try changing the ones that need fixing manually?

chmod -R 744 <broken file>

The -R option just means recursive which should work for all files under a directory, along with single broken files. Your owner should have full
access, and group read, and everybody else will also have just read access. Make sure you only run the command in the directory where your
required files are. Hope this works out for ya.

Worked a treat. I was looking at chmod all right but I couldn't make head nor tails of the information on the site I was looking at. I'll chalk it down to late night and lack of tea. Cheers man.