[Samba] question regarding samba permissions

[Dale Schroeder]

On 12/14/2011 4:35 PM, skull wrote:
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> 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)
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> but theres really no option in smb.conf like "read only users = " or
> something like that?

read list = user1 user2

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> 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
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