Samba permissions question

[Kappo]

We have a setup like this:

\\servername\client - mapped to windows workstation

Inside the \\servername\client we have several shares:

\adobe
\planograms
\JRE
\updates
\viewers
\otherstuff

Now, the \planograms folder is a link to \usr\tmp and is completely writable to anyone and everyone. We want it to stay that way.

But we want to make the entire \\servername\client directory read-only, excluding the \\servername\client\planograms folder, which we want to remain 777 for everyone.

The \usr\tmp folder (which is where the \planograms folder is linked to) is also shared (\\servername\tmp) with full rights to anyone and everyone (it gets flushed quite often), but when I set read-only to the \\servername\client folder, it applies those rights to the \planograms folder as well in the share.

Is there any way for me to set the \planograms folder to read-write-delete access while keeping the parent folder read-only?

Thank you in advance!

 

[Brazen]

what version of samba are you using?

Actually, could you post your smb.conf, or at least the section for the [client] share?

 

[greylica]

Some distros can play different rules for the directories tree, The parent folder is up or down ? A parent down the folder can sometimes herdate the superior parent permission folder on the tree.

The solution ( better ) is.

First of it all you have to mount in other manner, /tmp is not a good place to start since the system will use it too.
Is better to move entire to /home/( new user name for share)
create the folders
create users and groups
create permissions for every group
move the data
set the permissions separatedly for every folder and every user ( it can be done ina graphical way too )