Hi Steve,

The "umask bug" in GNOMEvfs also applies to such connections.

Also, for local shares, it is a bit weird to use ssh ;-)

I forgot to mention that DAV really does the trick for network shares, I do not see any problem with this for the moment.

To avoid the problems of GNOME apps not supporting dav:// addresses, I thought that using davfs2 would be a good idea, but it is not very usable for "standard" users (if a share is mounted by one user, the others cannot access to it, nor umount it, even with the "users" option in fstab).

Cheers,
Julien

Hi and thanks for your comment,

Samba could be a solution for network shares (which work great thanks to Webdav now), but what for local shares.
What if I want to share my pictures with my girlfriend for examples? If we both want to make changes to files we haven't created (and I cannot ask her to modify the permissions when she uploads new pictures). I thought the default mask of Posix ACL would do the trick... but not with this bug in GnomeVFS!

Cheers,
Julien

hi,

How else? (note that I don't want to change the default umask as this would only apply to particuler folders/files)

Let's take an example:

julien@hathor:~$ mkdir foo
julien@hathor:~$ chgrp users foo
julien@hathor:~$ chmod g+rwxs foo/
julien@hathor:~$ touch foo/bar
julien@hathor:~$ ll foo/
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 julien users 0 2006-06-19 18:02 bar

And now with the ACL:

julien@hathor:~$ rm -f foo/bar
julien@hathor:~$ setfacl -m d:g::rwx foo/
julien@hathor:~$ touch foo/bar
julien@hathor:~$ ll foo/bar
-rw-rw-r-- 1 julien users 0 2006-06-19 18:03 foo/bar

Now all the users part of the group users are write access to all files created under foo/ (note that it does work well in console, but not through nautilus).

This also applies to new directories created under foo/

julien@hathor:~$ mkdir foo/bar2
julien@hathor:~$ touch foo/bar2/foo
julien@hathor:~$ ll foo/ -R
foo/:
total 8
-rw-rw-r--  1 julien users    0 2006-06-19 18:03 bar
drwxrwsr-x+ 2 julien users 4096 2006-06-19 18:05 bar2

foo/bar2:
total 0
-rw-rw-r--  1 julien users 0 2006-06-19 18:05 foo

Cheers,
Julien

Hi Rob,

Maybe I was not clear enough in my first entry, but be sure everything is clear for me.

I would like not to use a server (ftp, samba etc.) to share files on the same machine (in this case, I talk about my deskop machine - with pictures, music etc.). As for remote shared folders, I found Webdav which works great, except small integration problems with Nautilus.

Cheers,
Julien