Samba: spurious files, changing permissions in folder

Hey all, I have a headless server set up & running (16.04). I have smb running, with several different shares & users privileges. But i can't get one folder to work. Every time i create it it comes full of driver folders, and I can't get the permissions to work. I have; 1. deleted, and recreated the directory 2. renamed (mv), and created new directory 3. changed the case of the directory (first letter) 4. used a different directory label all together. None of this works soooo, there is a gap in my knowledge and google has not returned anything of value. Can anyone help, or provide insight or direction?

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Originally Posted by XBMC old School

Hey all, I have a headless server set up & running (16.04).

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Congratulations and welcome to the club! I'm an old XBOX fan too. I also made an XBMC machine and used it to play back my 1st-born's pictures/movies to our visitors while we were still in the hospital. ;)

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Originally Posted by XBMC old School

I have smb running, with several different shares & users privileges.

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Are we talking local users, Samba DC users, Microsoft AD users?

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But i can't get one folder to work. Every time i create it it comes full of driver folders, and I can't get the permissions to work.

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Are you saying that "driver" files magically appear when you create a folder? What is the path you are talking about? Is it somewhere under /srv?

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Originally Posted by XBMC old School

I have; 1. deleted, and recreated the directory 2. renamed (mv), and created new directory 3. changed the case of the directory (first letter) 4. used a different directory label all together.

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Your primary tools are: "chown" to set user and group ownership, "chmod" to set file/folder permissions for the user, the group and everyone else not the user or group.

Here is a nice overview of Linux permissions.

LHammonds

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Congratulations and welcome to the club! I'm an old XBOX fan too. I also made an XBMC machine and used it to play back my 1st-born's pictures/movies to our visitors while we were still in the hospital.

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Been rockin it since xbox1

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local users, Samba DC users, Microsoft AD users?

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Network users, that have users accounts on the server as well. linux and windoes

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Are you saying that "driver" files magically appear when you create a folder? What is the path you are talking about? Is it somewhere under /srv?

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Yes magical. The shared folders are on Btrfs raids, mounted "on the system" so .... /apples/banana/stuffthatworks & apples/bananas/stuffthatdoesn'twork

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Your primary tools are: "chown" to set user and group ownership, "chmod" to set file/folder permissions for the user, the group and everyone else not the user or group.

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Everytime i have moved, made, and/or remade a directory, i have chmod to 777.

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Here is a nice overview of Linux permissions.

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Thanks for the link, I pretty sure that i read it before, with no avail

Thanks @lhammonds

Maybe it is chown??? Thoughts?