On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Matt Lashley wrote:

> A snip of share directives from our /etc/smb.conf.  We're able to share
> Linux disks with Win2K workstations running under VM.
>
> [all]
>         path = /
>         writeable = yes
>         create mode = 0775
>         user = root,jeremyw,shannag,normac
>
> [dvlprs]
>    path = /
>    writeable = yes
>    valid users = @dvlprs
>    create mode = 0775
>    directory mode = 0770
>    force group = dvlprs

Note that all created files will be executable, which is quite annoying.
Also keep in mind that sharing / (the whole tree) is not always advised.
In most cases you'd share a specific part of the tree.

Anyway, there is a default share of the home directory of the user. You
can put a symlink from there to any other dirs the user should access.

The homedir share brings me to one other cool thing you can do with samba:

You can have a share that depends on the some parameter of the connection:

the path of the home share is actually '%H'
While you can have silly share names like '/var/samba/%v' (just in case
you have multiple versions ;-) ), you can also do some useful things, like
a share of:

'/var/machine/%m'
'/staff/%u/samba'
'/files/teams/%g'

See smb.conf (5): variable substitution

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Tzafrir Cohen
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