[Discuss] setting up a new server

[Andrew Burgess]

it would not allow my user to create or copy items. sad.

Jeremy Kiffiak wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> Can you elaborate a little on what you mean by "no luck"?  What is it 
> that is not working for you?
>
> Jeremy
>
>
> On 29-Jul-07, at 11:56 PM, Andrew Burgess wrote:
>
>> I actually tried that. switched it to the users group. No luck.
>>
>> Jeremy Kiffiak wrote:
>>> Andrew,
>>>
>>> I would think the answer would be fairly straightforward.  What I 
>>> would do is
>>>
>>> 1.  create a group and add all of your users to it
>>> 2.  mount the drive and change ownership to that of the group 
>>> created above
>>> 3.  give that group full access permissions
>>> 4.  change the directory sticky bit for the group (chmod g+s <dirname>)
>>>
>>> Did I miss any steps?  Hope that is helpful (and correct).  8-)
>>>
>>> Jeremy
>>>
>>>
>>> On 29-Jul-07, at 10:49 PM, Andrew Burgess wrote:
>>>
>>>> My old server died. Both HD's toasted consecutively. I now have a 
>>>> new setup and have run into two problems. It's fedora core 7 ( no I 
>>>> will not switch to someone else's idea of the "Perfect Distro") I 
>>>> just have a single question. I have an extra drive that I have 
>>>> added as /mnt/share that I want everyone to be able to create and 
>>>> read files but I have either forgotten how to do this or something 
>>>> has changed in the last 4 distro's that will not let me do this any 
>>>> more. anyone have the majik hint that will let me set this drive to 
>>>> be writeable by all users?
>>>> The other problem is with samba and I'm working through this one 
>>>> (or so help me god you'll read about me in the news as an insurance 
>>>> statistic.
>>>> thanks for the assist.
>>>> Andrew.
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