Samba and Multiple Shares

[Christian Barth]

Hello!

> At the moment on the NT box we have all of our users and groups, we also
> have the file storage (home dirs, client space, sales space, marketing
> space, graphics space etc etc)
> 
> Each area has its own share: eg
> 
> Sales
> Marketing
> Human Resources
> Graphics
> Clients
> 
> Each of the shares has a group (eg Sales Group, Marketing Group - all NT
> Groups)
> 
> So when I add a user (eg fred, and he is in Sales, I add him to the Sales
> Group, and possibly the Marketing Group, but he doesn't get access to
> Clients, Graphics and Human Resources Drives)
> 
> How is the easiest way to do this under Samba2.2.0Alpha2 ??

It is easy to set up some thing similar with samba:
On your hard drive, make a directory sales, a directory marketing, 
.... In Linux create the groups marketing, sales, ... and enter the 
userss to the groups in /etc/groups. Probably set the primary group 
in /etc/passwd appropriate for each user.

Do chmod and chown that it looks on your hard drive similar to:

drwxr-s---    salesuser      sales     1024  13:03 sales
drwxr-s---    marketinguser  marketing 1024  13:03 markting
....
....

With salesuser and marketinguser being guys who should be allowd to 
create new subdirectores, whicht the may be writeable to the wole 
group.

Now create the shares in samba:
[sales]
  path = /disk/sales

[marketing] 
  path = /disk/marketing


That's it! I would recommand setting "inherit permissions = yes" in 
the global section of smb.conf. If you want you can now start playing 
with a couple of samba parameters like users allow, write group, ... 
but thats all not realy neccessary and I prefer to set these things 
up with linux-permissions because you may once have shell, ftp, scp, 
nfs, ... access as well. 

 
> Any help or HOWTO's would be greatly appreciated.
Hope this helps. There are a lot of good books about samba, a fine 
one is supplied as html with the source. A book about Unix/Linux 
administration will be a good backgroud.

Christian

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