[Samba] samba file hierarcy issue

[Moray Henderson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruno Martins [mailto:bmomartins at gmail.com]
> Sent: 30 December 2011 14:43
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] samba file hierarcy issue
> 
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 2:15 PM, korhan yazgan <korhanyazgan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I try to configure a samba file server and create a file hierarcy for
> > clients to view folders. What i try to do is as below:
> > I wanted to create a folder x with no password and other folders
> w,y,z
> > inside folder x with password. So users can enter and view x folder
> content
> > but cant view w,y,z
> > folder contents without password. But my clients that connect to
> samba
> > server cant view a folder hierarcy , they can just see the single
> folders
> > that i defined in the smb.conf.
> > Is it possible to create a folder hierarcy in samba server for
> clients
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Korhan
> 
> I think it's only possible by setting permissions, either Windows ACL
> or POSIX ACL.


This hierarchy works for us:

drwxr-xr-x 50 root root      4096 Aug 19 16:00 dat/
drwxrws--- 36 root personnel 4096 Dec 22 15:49 dat/personnel
drwxrwxr-x 30 root root      4096 Jul 28 19:36 publish/
drwxrwsr-x  3 root personnel 4096 Apr  4  2011 publish/personnel

where dat and publish are both shares:

[dat]
        comment = Group files
        path = /samba/dat
        create mask = 0744
        directory mask = 02770
        force directory mode = 02000

[pub]
        comment = Published files
        path = /samba/pub
        create mask = 0664
        directory mask = 02775
        force directory mode = 02775
        guest ok = Yes

Only logged-in members of the personnel group can read or write to files in
dat/personnel; anyone can read files in pub/personnel but only logged-in
members of the personnel group can write to it.


Moray.
"To err is human; to purr, feline."