Samba and write permissions

[Guest_imported]

We are running samba on Sun to map unix drives to PC. When I save
any file from MS WORD to my Unix home Dir, its owner is set as
"nobody" and it has permissions of write only to itself. Since my user
ID is not "nobody" I cannot write to this file as it is. What I can do is
copy it to another file and do whatever to that file. I want to be able to
have write permissions when it is saved from MS WORD. My SA says
SAMBA may not allow that.

IS it do-able ??? How ???

 

[alray]

On my system I have set up my samba user to correspond with a unix user (i.e. samba user = albert, unix user = albert). When I create and save files via MS Word they are saved with the owner = albert and the group set to the unix definition. I'm not sure if you can do it, but if the samba user does not also exist as a unix user the unix system may well have problems deciding who owns the files you are creating.

Hope this helps.