[Samba] Guest user?

[Tony Earnshaw]

ons, 27.04.2005 kl. 15.04 skrev piersk at bda.org.uk:

> Am trying to set up a guest account for employees from other offices to
> come in the office to login and do stuff.  I want to block access to all
> public drives so this is what I've done:
> 
> Consider the SAMBA server in Office A and I want to create a guest account
> so that people from Office B and C can access.  There is a public drive
> that everyone in Office A can edit, and a drive called "Restricted" that
> one person in Office A can edit, but everyone else in Office A can access
> but not edit.

You say nothing of Samba version or platform. I've discovered POSIX ACLs
on Red Hat RHAS3 and Samba 3.0.11, and  the whole shop's gone wild with
joy. Depending on your Samba version, do 'man smb.conf' and search for
'inherit acls'. Maybe something for you.

--Tonni

> 
> Created a group called "everyone" and added everyone in Office A to that
> group
> Created a group called "Restricted" and added the person who's allowed to
> edit this drive to that group
> Created the following lines in smb.conf file:
> 
> [public]
>     comment = shared folder
>     writeable = yes
>     path = /home/samba/public
>     write list = @everyone
>     guest ok = no
>     create mode = 0777
>     directory mode = 0777
> 
> [signmatters]
>         comment = shared folder
>         writeable = yes
>         path = /home/samba/restricted
>         write list = @restricted
>         valid users = @everyone @restricted
>         guest ok = no
>         create mode = 0775
>         directory mode = 0775
> 
> guest isn't part of either "everyone" or "restricted" groups.  The
> permissions of the 2 folders are:
> 
> drwxrwx---  3 root everyone   4096 2005-04-27 14:56 public
> drwxrwx---  2 root restricted 4096 2005-04-27 14:56 restricted
> 
> As it is, guest can't access either drives, everyone in Office A can
> access the public drive and edit stuff on there, the person who's allowed
> to edit the restricted files can do so, but no-one in Office A is able to
> access the restricted files?  How do I set it so that guest can't access
> the restricted files, but everyone in Office A can?
> 
> Thanks very much for your help in advance
> 
> Cheers - Piers
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