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How do I make files copied over the network from my Windows computer be owned by me?

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I have a drive on my Ubuntu machine shared over a network, and one of the computers that can access it is a Windows 7 computer.

Whenever I am on my Windows computer and I copy a file to the Ubuntu shared folder, it appears as owned by nobody, and with limited permissions:

-rwxr--r--  1 nobody nogroup

I always have to go to the command line on the Ubuntu side and issue a chown command to make it so that I have permissions to edit the file. Until I do, I can't move or copy it, and it won't sync with Dropbox.

How can I make it so that when I copy files from my Windows machine they automatically are owned by me (I only have one user account on my Ubuntu machine) and I have the permission to edit and move them freely?

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answered 3 Years ago aradxalte · Accepted Answer

I am not sure how your directory is shared on your network. If it is using Samba, edit the smb.conf and add the following two lines in the definiton of your share:

[yourshare]

...

force user = yourusername

force group = yourgroup

...

Hope this helps.