Subject: Re: file ownership
From: Jim Gribbin (jewelrysupplier@gci.net)
Date: Tue Jul 23 2002 - 19:00:52 AKDT
Yeah, but what is going to happen to the file ownership when a user
opens the file, edits it, and then re-saves it? Who owns it then? How
does one keep it editable by the group?
Jim Gribbin
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 08:29, Matthew Schumacher wrote:
>
> Jon,
>
> I am assuming samba.... If you have a file that needs to be shared you need to
> put all of the users in one unix group and then tell samba to force a group on
> the dir with this samba syntax:
>
> create mask = 0660
> directory mask = 0770
> force group = unixGroup
>
> That will force every file to be group writable with the right group set.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> schu
>
>
> Jon Reynolds wrote:
>
> > I have a certain file that needs to be shared with about 15 users. It is an
> > excel sheet that needs to be updated by everyone in the group. I have set
> > the file on the server and given it the a user and group and shared it with
> > the users. But whenever anyone edits the sheet and saves the changes it
> > reverts to that user as the owner and this locks the rest of the group out.
> > How do I make this shared excel sheet not change ownership?
> >
> > Jon
> >
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