[Samba] on the fly access and privilege determination

[Hamish]

You could enable ACLs and set permissions with those, using the normal 
windows security dialog. There is a howto here: 
http://www.bluelightning.org/linux/samba_acl_howto/
Once ACLs are working, just set up permissions as you would on a windows 
file server.
If you do not want to use ACLs you could use the options in smb.conf:

[teachersonly]
write list = (users or groups who can write to the folder)
valid users = (users or groups who can access the folder)

You will probably have more flexibility using ACLs
Hope that helps

Sahibzada Junaid Noor wrote:

>Hi,
>   
>   I have a active directory domain of windows 2000.
>
>inside AD i have three user groups. Teachers, students
>and administration.
>
>  every user has his home directory created on the
>fly. the umask is 0022.
>
>now what i want is that apart from users accessing
>there home directories there should be some other
>folders too which they can access.
>
>like teachers would like to access the assignments
>folder where students can paste there assignments. but
>students can only paste and cannot read in this
>folder.
>
>also i want a folder which both teachers and students
>can accees like the lecture notes folder which
>contains 
>the lecture notes for the current academic session.
>
>what infact i would like to have is that the rights
>and permissions of a certain user to be determined on
>the fly based on his membership of a certain active
>directory user group to which he belongs.
>
>like only a user belonging to teacher group can access
>a assignments folder. 
>
>but some one belonging to either teacher or students
>can access lecture notes.
>
>the same way no one except the administration can
>acceess the confidential folders containing the
>progress reports .
>
>i hope i have been clear
>
>can any one send a smb.conf which contains such
>settings.
>
>
>
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