Topic: SME and Samba Shares

[Agent86]

Before I try the bat files suggested I have noticed on other topic of concern.

This topic might be really a separate topic but I don't know.

Regarding Linux clients:
The groups have access to the shares no problems there.
But when one users writes to the share, the other group users cannot edit or delete any files on the shares.
The original user can delete files or edit those shares as long as that user was the one that put them on the server to begin with.

What could this be ??? I'm sure it's some permission topic of some kind. I have the users part of a group and that group has read/write access to that ibay etc. ???

Please advise

[Agent86]

Before I try the bat files suggested I have noticed on other topic of concern.

This topic might be really a separate topic but I don't know.

Regarding Linux clients:
The groups have access to the shares no problems there.
But when one users writes to the share, the other group users cannot edit or delete any files on the shares.
The original user can delete files or edit those shares as long as that user was the one that put them on the server to begin with.

What could this be ??? I'm sure it's some permission topic of some kind. I have the users part of a group and that group has read/write access to that ibay etc. ???

Please advise

Ok I'm answering my own question but still have a question ?

I noticed in the SME server-manager that the ibay's were set for write-group. and that I had one ibay set for one group and another set for another group. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with this problem, but both users are in both groups so I should have been able to access each ibay and also allow one user to add files and also another user on another client should be able to edit those files and/or delete them. But they cannot for some reason. only when I set the ibay's that I want to share to the same group. then and only then can one client/user delete or edit files that another client/user added.

This is strange and don't know why this is, but I'll fool with it some more perhaps I can also try Windows now and perhaps something has changed. If not I'll try the bat file suggested to work on the Windows problem. And FYI The windows clients never did have this write/delete problem as with the linux clients. The windows problem was only the had to double login to the computer then to the mapped drive that was about the only problem on the windows clients. Anyhow just FYI on this subject.

Anyhow I'll post back once I research this some more. If anyone knows anything about this in the mean time please let me know.

Thanks to all.

[Agent86]

So I have confirmed that the linux clients can write to the ibay but a different user from the same group can't delete or edit the files that were previously added by another user of the same group.

I don't get it ??? Is this normal ???

Please advisee
Thanks

[TrevorB]

So I have confirmed that the linux clients can write to the ibay but a different user from the same group can't delete or edit the files that were previously added by another user of the same group.

I don't get it ??? Is this normal ???

Please advisee
Thanks

If you believe that this is a bug (which it appears to be), please raise a bug in bugzilla. Please explain fully the symptoms and the tests performed (including permissions on the files in the ibay).

This is the ONLY way the developers will look at it.

Good Luck
Trevor B

[Agent86]

Well before entering as a bug, I would like to make sure I understand the permissions of the ibays, I mean when I tell the ibay that the group has write access/ and everyone read ? Am I understanding that the group can write, but can the group delete or edit files that other group users have added ???? If this is the way SME works then I guess it's not a bug, but if SME is intending for group/write to mean write/delete/edit then all group users should be able to do this with all files. But if SME is intending for group/write to mean write only, then perhaps this makes sense that each user can write files and read them but cannot delete files which another user has added.

Please advise what SME means by group/write in the server-manager.

Thanks for the help

[TrevorB]

but if SME is intending for group/write to mean write/delete/edit then all group users should be able to do this with all files.

This is what group write means. All users who belong to this group should be able to write/delete/edit.

It is possible that in this case it is only recognising one of their groups, and if that is the case, it is a bug

Trevor B

[Agent86]

Thanks I'll look into this some more and probably will have to post a bug.

Thanks