Terry Howard

I have been working on setting up a Samba file server in Ubuntu (Hardy Heron) for a couple weeks now and have been plagued with the problem of getting user files that are uploaded and directories that are created to be editable (read, write and execute) by a specific group that all users are a member of. That way ownership data is retained and everyone can truly share the files. Samba is great for this as both Macs and PCs in the office will be able to access it.

I tried everything from editing the Samba.conf file to the Nautilus servershares files and no amount of create mask and directory mask settings would work for me. I finally got my problem figured out from this forum post on Ubuntu Forums.

I wanted to post this up in the hopes that another tortured soul who has been grappling with this issue without any working solutions to be found online no matter what the search for would find it. This post was the needle in the haystack for me that solved my problem, so I’m hoping this serves as a guidepost to that needle for you.