On Thursday 04 May 2017 17:54:57 Chris Murphy wrote: > Pretty sure smb gets "control" of a directory via the group. For my > setup, each directory defined by a path in smb.conf has group > smbusers, and has rwx permissions. This is applied just to that > directory, it is not applied recursively. The files and folders in > that directory have the actual remote user's ownership and > permissions. > > What is applied recursively is the selinux label. I find it's better > to have a dedicated filesystem volume so you can use the mount option > context="system_u:object_r:samba_share_t:s0" and that will apply that > context to the whole file system. If a file system volume is being > shared, then you'll need to use chcon -R > "system_u:object_r:samba_share_t:s0" <path> to apply that context to > everything. New files and directories will inherit this context (so > long as it's a copy and not a move; so if you move things behind the > scenes outside of samba, you can run into label problems since > inheritance doesn't apply to moving). > > > Chris Murphy I have run the following commands for each share, to ensure that group permissions are are: find . -type d -exec chmod 770 {} \; find . -type f -exec chmod 660 {} \; I can now create and delete files and folders using windows explorer. I can also create a new blank spreadsheet in Excel and save it to the share. However, when I then open that file in Excel again it comes up as Read Only. Again, I can delete the spreadsheet using Windows Explorer What I don't understand, apart from why the system is behaving like this, is what has changed that stopped it from working in the first place. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos