Hi there - searched briefly, but I haven't been able to find anything here, so I'm sorry if I'm repeating an old topic.

 

Is there a way to set a "default" set of smb options for the user shares? I have been battling a problem with file ownership and permissions on my box (mostly to do with files I put on there and allowing sickbeard to manipulate them). When I copy a file to a share on the server through my user account, it is owned by my account, and has the default permissions. I would like all files added to the server to be owned by nobody (the sickbeard user), and have the permissions 666. I managed to do this through a custom share by adding the following lines to the config in smb-extra.conf. 

  force create mode = 0666
  force directory mode = 0777
  force user = nobody
  force group = users
  create mask = 0666

 

I tried to do the same to the user share config in /etc/samba/smb-shares.conf, but as soon as I try and restart network sharing through the web gui, it overwrites the file and my changes are erased. Is there a way to add config entries to the user shares that won't get blown away?

 

Cheers,

whiteatom

Managed to solve my own problem.. just had to think about it a bit differently. Instead of modifying the user share smb conf.. I added a [Global] section to the smb-extra.conf. For those interested:

 

To force a user and permissions on all files copied to all shares on your box, add the following lines to /boot/config/smb-extra.conf

 

[Global]

  force create mode = 0666

  force directory mode = 0777

  force user = nobody

  force group = users

  create mask = 0666

 

I would still be interested in a better solution so that I can control this user share by user share. I could see a "Custom SMB Config" field in the share settings section being very useful in the future.

 

Cheers,

 

whiteatom