[Techtalk] turning off setuid on smb shares

Carla Schroder carla at bratgrrl.com
Thu Jul 10 00:00:10 EST 2003


On Wednesday 09 July 2003 8:41 am, Walt wrote:
> Okay, I'm having some difficulty finding out how
> to do this in the man pages... I do not want files
> created from a variety of windows workstations
> on the linux smb share to have a setuid bit. Despite
> the group having rw permissions, this causes
> problems with one, lone annoying application: Quark.
>
> Do I need to disable this in mounting the drive or
> in the samba settings...? How do I do it?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Walt

I think- but I am not sure- that removing the setuid bit from smbmount will do 
the trick. 

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