[Samba] access users homes share

[M Azer]

I hope this is what you are looking for. basically you need to set the
sticky bit for the owner - I assume that the user1 home folder is owned by
user1.
chmod u+s "user1 home folder"
this way any file/folder gets created will be owed by user1.
http://www.zzee.com/solutions/chmod-help.shtml

On 1/23/07, Sascha <tdy_shadow at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> now theres another problem: when i access a share and create a file the
> user will be forced to %U and not to the user who owns the homes share. when
> i set force user =%S then everyone can connect to the share.
> is there a chance that when i give user1 the rights to connect to user2
> homes share (via setfacl) and user1 creates a file that this file will be
> chown to user2. i dont want to create a special share or groups because when
> i do it that way i would have 50 extra shares in my smb.conf.
>
> thanks for your help again and best regards
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Sascha <tdy_shadow at yahoo.com>
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 12:39:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] access users homes share
>
> thanks for your help. i just did a setfacl on the users home directory and
> i could access it. really nice :)
>
> thanks again for the help
>
> best regards
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Maurício Szabo <mauricio.szabo at gmail.com>
> To: Sascha <tdy_shadow at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 12:27:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] access users homes share
>
> You can add user1 to a group that user2 is currently in, and set
> permissions of the user2 home share to be "group-readable".
>
> For example, user2 is a member of the group "foo", so you can add user1 to
> "foo" group, add user2's home share to "foo" group, and finally do a chmod
> g+wxr to user2's home folder.
>
>
> On 1/23/07, Sascha <tdy_shadow at yahoo.com> wrote:
> hey list,
>
> we are currently migrating our users from novell to samba. now we have one
> problem: in novell we could give e.g. user1 access to users2 home share so
> he could modify, delete or add files on this share. in samba we defined a
> global homes share that is mapped on logon. so how can we give user1 the
> needed rights?
>
> here is the definition of the homes share in smb.conf:
>
> [homes]
>         comment = user share
>         browseable = no
>         writeable = yes
>         write list = %U
>         create mask = 0600
>         directory mask = 0700
>
>         force user = %U
>         force group = Administrators
>         oplocks = true
>
> do we need to add a special share and group?
>
> thanks for help and best regards
>
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