[Samba] Fwd: Re: question regarding samba permissions

[skull]

woudln't work because all the users are in one group anyway.
and i am not allowed to to give read rights do "any" (i.e. 755)

but theres really no option in smb.conf like "read only users = " or
something like that?


Am 13.12.2011 17:56, schrieb 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