[Samba] Write permission for only server machine.

[prakash k]

--- Andreas <andreas at conectiva.com.br> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Thanks for replying.
The machine which provides the antivirus updates is a
windows machine and as we were told, rsync and scp are
not available on windows. Is there any other
alternative?
 
Regds,
Prakash.

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