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mjleonard
Aspirant
Jul 27, 2016

Share permissions (samba force user/group)

I have been running os6.5.0 on my old ultra6 for some time now, and everything seems to be going well. I am however trying to setup a CIFS share so that regardless of user account used to connect, th...
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kohdee
NETGEAR Expert
Jul 27, 2016

You can make modifications to the Samba share using /etc/frontview/samba/smb.conf.overrides

 

 

[Share]
   path = /data/Share
   force user = root
   force group = root
[global]

Make sure Share matches your share from your config (can doublecheck testparm or look at /data/._share/Share/samba.conf, or /etc/frontview/samba/Shares.conf). Also, don't forget the [global] at the end. 

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