[Samba] File permissions

[Joel Hammer]

Another approach. 

If what you are doing is getting the kids to send in school assignments via
the share, why not write a cron job which monitors that share, say ever 5
secs, and when a file appears on the share, it is removed and stored
somewhere else. Or, maybe the cron job could just change permissions on the
file to prevent the user from accessing the file anymore.

Or, why not have your students print the file. Could windows be persuaded
to just dump the document intact to a "print" spool directory via a
print command on the window client, and make in the share in smb.conf:
print command = echo "Another assignment arrived" | mail -s "More work" YourMailingAddress

Hey. This is linux. Imagination rules.

Joel

On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 09:10:58AM -0500, Scott Mayo wrote:
> Ok.  It kinda works.  If I drag and drop it works, but if I try to 'save as'
> out of Word to the dir then I get 'an out of memory or disk full' error.
> Any ideas on that?  Thanks.
> Scott Mayo
> Tech Coordinator
> Bloomfield Schools
> PH:  (573) 568-4564
> FX:  (573) 568-5681
> Pager:  (800) 264-2535  X2549
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel Hammer" <Joel at HammersHome.com>
> To: "Scott Mayo" <sgmayo at mail.bloomfield.k12.mo.us>; <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 9:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] File permissions
> 
> 
> > Why not make
> > create mask = 000 ?
> > Once they save it, they can't touch it. And, nobody can overwrite it,
> > either, it seems.
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 07:25:38PM -0500, Scott Mayo wrote:
> > > This is a temporary fix until I get my students added, but here is what
> I
> > > want.
> > >
> > > I have a directory on my linux machine.
> > > /programs/bhs
> > >
> > > the permissions for bhs are 1777  jones:teach = (owner:group)
> > >
> > > In my smb.conf I have the following or there abouts(I have change it
> many
> > > times)
> > >
> > > [bhs]
> > > comment = bhs
> > > path = /programs/bhs
> > > writable = yes
> > > create mask = 770
> > > force user = kreese
> > > force group = teacher
> > >
> > > My idea was that when the students login highschool:bhs = (user:group)
> and
> > > save to the directory that it would change the owner:group to
> kreese:teacher
> > > which it does.  I also thought that since I had the sticky bit set on
> the
> > > folder that since they no longer were the owner or in the group (after
> the
> > > save) that they would not be able to delete it which they still can.
> What
> > > am I doing wrong?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help.
> > > Scott Mayo
> > > Tech Coordinator
> > > Bloomfield Schools
> > > PH:  (573) 568-4564
> > > FX:  (573) 568-5681
> > > Pager:  (800) 264-2535  X2549
> > >
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