Subject Re: [firebird-support] Linux samba rights
Author Tom Conrad
Samba rights are controlled per share in /etc/samba/smb.conf

Sándor Tamás (HostWare Kft.) wrote:
> We have our project saving database every night automatically. It is done
> partly by FB service, partly by our application. It first creates a backup
> of database, then our application packs it with some sort of ZIP library. It
> works great on Windows, but fails on some linux environment.
> The bad thing, that when FB creates the backup file, it creates with root
> rights (we tried to change the FB starting script, so the user would be
> user1, but finally it always starts with root privileges). But when our
> application tries to pack it on Windows, it tries to read it with user1
> rights trough samba, so it can't do it, our backup process fails.
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> Any idea how to make this works? This is a very important part of our
> application, it HAS to work.
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> Thanks,
> SanTa
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