[Samba] Write permission for only server machine.

[Andreas]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 06:44:27AM -0700, prakash k wrote:
> Good day every one.
> 
>     I have a network with samba 3.0.7 running on a
> server. Every hour, the server downloads antivirus
> updates and pushes them to all the clients on the
> network.
>    My objective is to give write permission for  the
> antivirus share only to this  server machine. Other 
> machines should have only read permission. My samba 
> configuration file is as follows:

You don't have to use the SMB protocol to push the antivirus files
to the share. You can use something like rsync, or scp to directly
put the new virus database in the directory which is shared via
samba, which will then be simply read-only.