[Samba] Preventing deletion of folders under a SAMBA share

[Steve Simeonidis]

You should be able to do it by manually applying Unix permissions
Or use force directory mode = and force directory security mode.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: samba-bounces+ssimeonidis=computerpower.edu.au at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-bounces+ssimeonidis=computerpower.edu.au at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Stuart Callender
Sent: Friday, 4 February 2005 9:14 AM
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] Preventing deletion of folders under a SAMBA share


I am trying to set up a basic Samba server and configure it so that folders under a share cannot be deleted accidentally by a user.  The ideal scenario would be to have the top-level folders under the share non-deleteable, but folders and files are able to be created under it.

I cannot find any easy way of doing this directly, but thought that the use of the 'veto' option would work nicely, by just populating each main top-level folder with a pre-named hidden file (ie. .do_not_remove), then setting veto files = /*.remove/.  The theory of this would keep the main folder structure intact.  However this option seems to be ignored by Samba 3 and Windows 2000.  Windows 2000 will quite happily delete read-only files - which seems to be an annoying trait that cannot be overridden.

I have been working for weeks on this and have tried almost every conceivable option from directory permissions to share permissions, etc., with no luck.  Windows 2000 Server can do this quite easily, but with obvious licencing costs.  I would be extremely disappointed if there wasn't an open-source solution to this.  Is the something obvious that I'm missing?

Samba has been compiled from source with --with-acl-support option.

All helpful comments would be much welcomed.

Thanks in Advance.

Stuart

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Kernel 2.6 (SuSE 9)
Samba Version: 3.0.10
Windows Client: Windows 2000 Professional

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