[TriLUG] Samba question

[Roy Vestal]

What is your "security=" in the globals?

jonc at nc.rr.com wrote:
> I've done a lot of this. Group shares generally work just fine. Heck as
> long ago as 8 years ago I had this working for a large company with each
> branch having their own shared folder areas. The folks didn't even know
> that it was a Linux box running samba that they were attaching to.
> 
> Why don't you post your config. 
> 
> Jon
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com>
> Date: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 9:33 am
> Subject: [TriLUG] Samba question
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
> 
>> Had anyone tried to set up a Samba share in the following manner:
>>
>> /data1 (shared to all employees.  used as a general place where 
>> everyone can
>> dump files)
>> /data1/marketing  (where only employees that are defined in the group
>> marketing (in /etc/groups) can access the share?)
>>
>> This seems it should be possible.  However this was tried in 
>> practice users
>> defined in the /etc/groups group for marketing will lose 
>> connectivity to the
>> /data1/marketing share occasionally.  Does anyone have a restrictive
>> directory shared from within a general access shared directory working
>> properly?
>>
>> Would it be easier to just define the users instead of using groups 
>> (likethe following example)?
>>
>> [marketing]
>>  comment = Marketing
>>  path = /data1/marketing
>>  valid users = mary fred
>>  public = no
>>  writable = yes
>>  printable = no
>>  create mask = 0765
>>
>>
>>
>> Greg
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