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Permissions for new files omit group write permission
Using the Dropbox Sync app on a Linux machine Newly created files lack the "Write" bit and this makes the shared folder inaccessible for other users on the network. Already checked the `umask` an...
Megan
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHi kegloadam, can you clarify if the folder is shared only over the network, or if it's a shared folder in Dropbox too?
Do you simply want to have the files located in Dropbox, and share them over your local network to be accessible for other users?
Hi Megan,
It's mixed. 🙂 Some folders shared via Dropbox as well (online). And all files shared over SMB locally from the Linux itself.
The use case is: Internal users can reach all Dropbox files via SMB and 6 dropbox clients (6 different Linux users) syncing all the files (6 "main folder" with selective sync). Its reason to have 6 different users with selective sync instead of 1 is that, we have 2 millions of files and re-indexing after a reboot or just periodically (when the dropbox client wants to do it) takes much less time with this solution.
