How to get Samba to set proper permissions on created?
The parent directory has the set group id flag, thus the sambashare group owner. The idea is that both samba users and server users belong to the sambashare group, and thus are to be able to edit, delete, and create files and directories.
When to use valid user or force user in samba?
The valid users option informs Samba what users to limit the share to, and the force user option ensures all files are written as that user only. You can set multiple users for this, like so: What if, however, you have a group called editorial, and you want to share the directory /data/editorial to that group?
How to configure Samba server share on Ubuntu 20.04 focal?
Use your favourite text editor, ex. atom, sublime, to edit our new /etc/samba/smb.conf samba configuration file and add the following lines to the end of the file: Optionally, add a new publicly available read-write Samba share accessible by anonymous/guest users. First, create a directory you wish to share and change its access permission:
How can I password protect a samba share?
To password-protect a samba share, you need to create a group “smbgrp” and set a password for each user. In this example I use aaronkilik as user and password as “tecmint“. Note: The samba security mode: security = user requires clients to enter a username and password to connect to shares.
How to create Samba share writeable by all, group or only users?
Note: you should have created group “sharegroup” (or another group) as outlined above. # share [share] path = /media/share valid users = @sharegroup writeable = yes browseable = yes create mask = 0644 directory mask = 0755 force user = shareuser For this, we’ll need to create a samba password for the user you created previously.
How can I set a folder to be owned by a specific group?
You can make set all new files to be created in a folder to be owned by a specific group using chmod . For example, will change all folders and files’ ownership group in /media/share to sharegroup, and then apply the setgid bit to make any new files or folders created also have sharegroup group ownership.
How to share Samba Dir using SGID and Unix groups?
After a lot of trial and error, this is the correct code to share samba dir using SGID and unix groups. If user connects anonymously he gets r/o, if he logs in and is a member of assigned group he gets r/w. I have group named ‘admin’ set as primary group to users with write privileges, everyone else gets read only rights.