Take the 2-minute tour ×  On our home network we have Ubuntu
10.4 amd64 Desktop functioning as a file server and a couple of
WinXP laptops. Ubuntu is not set up as a domain server, user
names and passwords are synched, manually, across all machines.
What is the proper way to set up a shared space for the windows
clients so that members of group Parents, and only Parents, both
have read and write access to it's contents?  I thought I had
this done, but when Dad creates or writes a file in
\server\share-parents\ Mom's write access to same is revoked,
vice versa. This creates all sorts of havoc when said file is
the family expense spreadsheet and the home renos are this close
to blowing the year's budget and credit card payment is due...
Need I add that last years kludge of recursively chown'ing to
:parents and chmod'ing g+w no longer keeps the bacon out of the
fire?  The smb.conf shared section:  # other stuff edited out
security = user  comment = parents shared files available = yes
browseable = yes public =