How do I set permissions on a samba connection?

[Avi Greenbury]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Samba/CIFS, is IMO the wrong tool. For starters its intended to talk to 
> winders machines, and the last time I checked, was still unable to work 
> with the perms diffs between windows and any *nix.

It's intended to talk to CIFS clients, and Ubuntu is a CIFS client.
It doesn't implement Unix filesystem permissions, but the permissions
mechanism it does use is a much more powerful and flexible set of
ACLs - it's no bad thing that it's not restricted to Unix fs
permissions.

> You want nfs, but you'll need to do some configuring.  Its all in the man 
> pages AFAIK.

NFS is fine, too. But SMB/CIFS should also Just Work.

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Avi