[Samba] using the DC as a file Server in AD

Klaus Hartnegg hartnegg at uni-freiburg.de
Thu Jun 11 02:59:06 MDT 2015


Am 10.06.2015 um 01:36 schrieb mots:
> I've learned that you won't be able to just give a user access to a
> file without also giving him read access to every folder, down from
> the root of the share, that the file is located in. Example: You
> can't give accounting access to \\samba\IT\management\budget.ods
> without also giving them rights to \\samba\IT and
> \\samba\IT\management.

It is sufficient to give them execute/traverse permission, then they 
access directories inside, but cannot read, not even list contents of 
the directories on the way to there.


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