[Samba] Restricted folder inside public share

[Wolfgang Ratzka]

Carsten Gehling wrote:
> I've been assigned the task to make a fileserver with the following
> share:

> 1) I open \\my-samba-server\public - The folder is opened without any
> username/password requests. Inside this folder I can create files and
> folders.
> 
> 2) Inside \\my-samba-server\public there is a sub folder called
> "event". If I try to open this, I will be prompted for
> username/password before access is granted.
> 
> How do I do that? Is it at all possible, or can I only make it with
> "event" as a separate share?

It will not work this way. Once a Windows client has connected to the public
share, nothing will make it "re-autheticate" the connection. You will just
get an "access denied" for the protected subfolder. You may even run into problems
if you work with two separate shares on the same server, as windows does not
support connecting to two different shares on the same host with different
credentials.

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