[Samba] access to all home directories for all users
Thomas Kreft
daeron at gmx.net
Tue Feb 1 16:03:14 GMT 2005
[I'm terribly sorry - the Webmailer didn't warn me about the missing
subject! I couldn't come up with a decent one anyway, but here we go again.]
I have a rather complex access setup for my users home-directories. This is
because
a) All users have to be able to read other users files (minus some private
folders)
b) Some users additionally have write access to specific (not: all!)
home-directories
So a user Joe also has a group called 'Joe' with members Joe, Tim and Kate.
Hence, Joe, Tim and Kate may write to /home/joe. I do this by editing
smb.conf as follows:
[homes]
valid users = @users
write list = @%g
browseable = No
create mask = 0660
directory mask = 0770
Now the question is: How do I provide the users with an easy way to access
the various 'homes', ie. via a mapped network drive, and STILL preserve the
'write list' option of the smb.conf?
Of course, the users could type "\\SERVERNAME" into their windows explorer,
or browse through the network neighbourhood everytime, but this is rather
inconvenient.
Or I could create a share with symlinks to all the home folders, but this
would deprive me of the individual 'write list' access control.
Hope I could make myself clear! Any ideas are highly appreciated, I'm
completely lost.
Thomas
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