Disabling directory listing

[simo]

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 11:19 -0400, John DiSpirito wrote:
> I was wondering if it were possible to configure a file share within
> samba which
> 
> will allow a user read access to any file they want on the share,
> providing they know the
> 
> exact location to the file.
> 
>  
> 
> I'm working on an application which will be accessing files shared
> across a  read only samba mount, and
> 
> this data needs to be protected in the event that the machine would get
> hacked.  The data is not super sensitive
> 
> like social security numbers, or bank codes, but is still sensitive.
> 
>  
> 
> The application will know exactly where the files live because of a call
> to a database containing this information, so
> 
> ideally, if we could somehow disable directory listings from within the
> smb.conf file,  we should be good.
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> I've done an implementation similar to this with an FTP application,
> however, it required me to modify file system permissions.
> 
> Because of other applications using this shared data, I can't change
> permissions on the physical mount point.
> 
> I can create a separate samba share pointing to the same mount point,
> and assign any samba related permissions there.
> 
>  
> 
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.


Have you tried with the "hide unwritable" option ?

Simo.

 
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