Samba 2.2.1a setup

[Christian Barth]

> > > How can I set up Samba to enable NT users to save HTML files to their own
> > > home directories on our Linux web server? For example, I want to have them
> > > save to /home/teacher1/web/foo.html on our Linux machine, by saving it to
> > > L:\teacher1\foo.html on our NT 4 machine.
> > At a first glace: This mapping won't work. (Or is going to be tricky)
> > The path statement of the share allway defines the first part of the
> > Unix-Path to the file, the path after the drive letter the secend
> > part. And so you some how get problems leaving out the "web" in the
> > path.
> 
> Actually, with some work, this is quite possible.  If you define a
> folder like /home/web/teacher1 and symlink it to /home/teacher1/web,
> you can share /home/web and map it to L: so that users can access
> L:\teacher1 and it maps to /home/web/teacher1 which maps to
> /home/teacher1/web and then you're all set.  You'd just have to create
> such a folder for each teacher or user.
> 
> Personally, I'd go with the /home/%U idea so that users can't write
> into other users' folders, or would regular file permissions prevent
> that?
If the regular file permissions are setup correctly they prevent 
this. They are allways respected by samba.

Christian

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