Making a share visible only to members of a group
Onno Zweers
onno at verweij.com
Mon Aug 28 14:49:39 GMT 2000
Hi all (and hopefully also someone of the samba team),
I want a shared directory to be visible only to the members of a group, and
to no one else. Instead, a shared directory is either visible to everyone
(browseable=yes) or to no-one (browseable=no). When a non-authorised user
enters the shared directory, she gets an error message. That's good. But
since the user cannot use the share anyway, I want her not to see the share
in the list.
In the newsgroup comp.protocols.smb they told me it was not possible. I
have considered using a clever "include" statement, but it seems not
possible to make an include depend on user ID. In the FAQ, the HowTo en the
man pages I found no solution, and not even a mention of this problem.
Is such browseable-by-group behaviour really is not supported? Is there any
chance it will be supported in the future?
I have worked as a programmer, and I think it would be a small effort to
create a smb.conf statement like:
browseable-by-group = @groupname
or:
browseable = @groupname
or:
browseable = valid users
to make sure only members of a certain group see the share listed. It would
enhance useability of Samba, and it would take away the only advantage of
Windows NT server (IMHO). I would like to help to program this option, but
I have no experience in programming for Linux environments, except for some
super simple shell scripts.
Is it difficult to start programming for Linux/Samba, for someone with
Windows programming experience? What is the best start for such an undertaking?
Onno
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