Location of smb.conf in Mojave

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Location of smb.conf in Mojave

I have a file sharing setup on my Mac Mini which is running MacOS 10.14. I write to this share from my Windows PC, the share is actually the documentRoot for Apache so I can test web pages running on my Mac. When I write the files from my Windows PC the _www user does not have rights to read the file. I have to go to my Mac and grant the permissions, rather annoying actually. I thought I had it figured out when I set the permissions for everyone to read only and I thought it would inherit those, that did not work. I believe the issue is Samba is configured with a create mask of 0027 or something like that.

I looked for smb.conf on the drive but could not find it. Did Apple change the name or move the configuration to a plist?

Any help would be appreciated.

thanks,

Tyson

Mac mini, macOS Mojave (10.14), 8GB RAM

Posted on Oct 20, 2018 9:22 AM

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MrHoffman

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Oct 26, 2018 11:35 AM in response to JustTyson

Add an access control list entry with the inherit items set? See the chmod command man page for details on the attributes and ACLs, and then web-search for some examples if yiu need those.). macos - How do I use chmod on a Mac to make new files inherit parent directory permissions? - Ask Different

More details: OS X Server: When saving files on SMB shares, the permissions might be changed so that only the owner can read or write …

I’ve not tried this on Mojave, though...

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JustTyson Author

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Oct 27, 2018 8:22 AM in response to MrHoffman

After many attempts to get it just right I was able to set an ACL. I used the following command

chmod -R +a "user:_www allow read,list,search,file_inherit,directory_inherit" .

I am not sure if the -R was necessary but it didn't seem to hurt anything.

thanks for your assistance.

Tyson

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Barney-15E

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Oct 26, 2018 11:35 AM in response to JustTyson

Apple dropped Samba several OS's ago. Anything you find about configuring Samba will be of no use.

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Oct 27, 2018 8:31 AM in response to JustTyson

Whether the recursive switch is necessary depends on whether there are files and directories below the specified path, and whether changes to those files and directories are intended.

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JustTyson Author

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Oct 29, 2018 3:57 AM in response to MrHoffman

I created a sub folder nd files within it and was able to access the files frim the website withiut having to reset the permissions, which is nice.

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Location of smb.conf in Mojave

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