[Samba] question regarding samba permissions

[Raffael Sahli]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:38:41 +0100, "skull" <skull17 at gmx.ch> wrote:
> I want to make a subfolder read only for certain users.
> for example: /data/pool is public rwx for all users. 
> and now i would like to make a /data/pool/subfolder only rwx for user1
and
> grant read only permissions to user2 and user3
> how do i do this? any links or direct tips on that?

You have to change the permission on the filesystem and not with Samba.
set the owner user1 and a group with all other users. After that change
the dir mod (chmod 0750)

> 
> my suggestion would be something like this, but as you can imagine it
> didn't work:
> 
> # The general datapool where everyone may rwx
> [pool]
>     comment = Datapool
>     path = /data/pool
>     force directory mode = 700
>     force create mode = 770
>     create mode = 770
>     directory mode = 770
>     public = yes
>     writable = yes
>     printable = no
>     valid users = user1 user2 user3
> 
> #My new Protected Subfolder
> [Write Protected Subfolder]
>     comment = Write Protected Subfolder
>     path = /data/pool/subfolder
>     force directory mode = 700
>     force create mode = 770
>     create mode = 770
>     directory mode = 770
>     public = yes
>     writable = yes
>     printable = no
>     valid users = user1

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