[Samba] Only one user for a file

[Martyn Ranyard]

A.  This is not a good answer to the original problem, because as I read 
it, it is a multiple-access-at-the-same-time problem.
(Original poster - try turning oplocks = off in samba)

B.  I hate to think of people saying Windows is better than Unix so - Unix 
does have support for ACLs in some of it's flavours, also you should 
investigate putting people into groups, because people can belong to more 
than one group and this enables you to granulate very finely who can access 
what.

At 10:43 AM 2/6/02 -0500, Thomas, Daniel J. wrote:
>This I think is a limitation of Unix.  In NT we can assign any number of
>users and groups with varied rights to any group of files or folders.  In
>UNIX you can only assign one user and one group to a set of files so either
>one person has control of the file, everyone in a group has control of the
>file, or the world has control of the file.  I wish there was a better way
>to do this because I can think of special cases where you need to do more
>specific things for instance:
>I have a Linux web server.  One of the directories I would like to have
>multiple users given Read/write control to so they can edit the web content.
>I'd like some of the directories to be read only to certain users and others
>to be read to everyone.  I can't really think of an efficient way to do this
>with the UNIX OS, but it would be very simple under NT.
>-Dan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Squires,Ron [mailto:squiresr at odem-edroy.k12.tx.us]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 10:04 AM
>To: samba at lists.samba.org
>Subject: [Samba] Only one user for a file
>
>
>I have set up samba to be recognized on my NT/2K domain network and it does
>a great job with single user files.  I have attempted to use the file system
>to hold network programs and have run into this problem.   Some programs
>restrict the use of the program to one user;however, when installed on a 2K
>or NT server there is unlimited access.
>
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Martyn

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