[Samba] Restricting file types

[Mark Lidstone]

There are two points I would make about using veto files.  First of all
there is a performance hit when using it.  I know that's probably not
going to be a problem when you're talking about a file server, but
anyone else should bear it in mind.

Secondly, there is nothing stopping your people renaming files to get
them onto the web servers (e.g. upload mp3s as "songname.haha" then use
a very simple perl CGI script to read the file in and pass it to web
browsers under a different name, or they could upload Windows EXE files
in ZIP files etc...).

I know it's being padantic, but hey - it might be useful to know in the
future. ;)

Mark Lidstone
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Stewart [mailto:mike at powys-training.co.uk] 
Sent: 08 July 2004 16:03
To: embrey at hood.edu; samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Restricting file types


Yes, and very useful it is too :-)

In the Globals section I put this to stop all users cluttering up the
server with mp3 files. You can put it in each required share definition
rather than globals though.

veto files = /*.mp3/

basically it starts with a / then file name and type and then ends with
/

so,  veto files = /*.bat/*.scr/mike.*/

would stop all bat and scr files, and any file called mike with any ext.

I use SWAT for configuring my Samba shares and the help file explains it
well.

HTH

Mike


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Embrey" <embrey at hood.edu>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 2:36 PM
Subject: [Samba] Restricting file types


Samba List:



Is it possible to limit what filename extensions can be stored in a
samba share? We use samba to allow our windows web designers to use drag
and drop when deploying new pages on our website. We want to be able to
limit which filename extensions can be saved to these shares. Is this
possible and if not and alternatives?



Bruce Embrey



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