How to set file/directory ownership/permissions in a Samba share on Windows using Python/.NET?

Question

I need to create directories and files in a Samba share on Windows, from a Python script. I can (and do) also use .NET 3.5 from Python. I would like to create these directories and files with certain owners and permissions. Can I achieve this somehow?

Answer 1

You can use CACLS.exe to display or modify Access Control Lists (ACLs) for files and folders. You can call this from Python with something like:

result = os.popen("cacls " + '"' + theDirPath + '"')

There is a good example of a Python script which sets up permissions here