[TriLUG] Samba Permissions Question

[Alan Porter]

> The problem I'm having is that when I write to my shared 
> folder from another machine via the share, the owner of the written 
> folder becomes root, instead of me.

You should use the "force user" option in your smb.conf file.
The "create mask" option might be helpful as well.

[public]
    comment = public share area
    path = /home/public
    force user = alan
    public = yes
    writable = yes
    create mask = 0755
    preserve case = yes


Alan