[Discuss] setting up a new server

[Andrew Burgess]

I actually tried that. switched it to the users group. No luck.

Jeremy Kiffiak wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> I would think the answer would be fairly straightforward.  What I 
> would do is
>
> 1.  create a group and add all of your users to it
> 2.  mount the drive and change ownership to that of the group created 
> above
> 3.  give that group full access permissions
> 4.  change the directory sticky bit for the group (chmod g+s <dirname>)
>
> Did I miss any steps?  Hope that is helpful (and correct).  8-)
>
> Jeremy
>
>
> On 29-Jul-07, at 10:49 PM, Andrew Burgess wrote:
>
>> My old server died. Both HD's toasted consecutively. I now have a new 
>> setup and have run into two problems. It's fedora core 7 ( no I will 
>> not switch to someone else's idea of the "Perfect Distro") I just 
>> have a single question. I have an extra drive that I have added as 
>> /mnt/share that I want everyone to be able to create and read files 
>> but I have either forgotten how to do this or something has changed 
>> in the last 4 distro's that will not let me do this any more. anyone 
>> have the majik hint that will let me set this drive to be writeable 
>> by all users?
>> The other problem is with samba and I'm working through this one (or 
>> so help me god you'll read about me in the news as an insurance 
>> statistic.
>> thanks for the assist.
>> Andrew.
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