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John Palmer wrote: > > In the last resort you could have a cron job, run every so often to adjust > the permissions or group-ownerships of files created since it last ran. The traditional Unix file permissions weren't really aimed at this sort of usage of computers. The programmers created programs, and users ran them, and files were something the application programmer dealt with. That its simple file permission structure is still widely used, should make you think about why, and I suspect the answer is that whilst ACLs seem such a good idea in theory, in practice they expect you to micro manage permissions at a level most people don't want to get into. The formal answer is thus, Posix ACL are supported, and the Samba docs cover this. Apart from John's hack, it occurred to me that the relevant "filesystem" could be mounted (remounted) over SMB by the Linux box it is on (making it both server and client), and thus (depending how you did Samba user mappings) it might inherit whatever permissions and behaviours you created for samba to use already. Won't be the fastest way of doing things, but then if you use SMB performance clearly isn't an issue. Simon
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