Cheers Rafiu, A bit of a misunderstanding, I'm not after finer user control, but finer permissions.
Openfiler doesn't allow me to set write only permissions, or to say that a group can get directory listings or not. Any chance we will see that level of control available? Jason :) ----- Original message ----- From: "Rafiu Fakunle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [email protected] Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 14:20:50 +0000 Subject: Re: [OF-users] SMB and permissions from Windows using AD Howdy :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I have a share setup in Openfiler, the fine level of user > permissions that Im used to in Windows inst available, so for instance > with Openfiler its impossible to set someone's permissions as write > only. > The thing to do here would be to create a group with only that user as a member. We're going to be adding user level ACL to the GUI in any case. The ext3 32 ACL object limit has been removed. > However, from a Windows box I can bring up the properties sheet of the > share and see all the permissions there, and I can then > change/add/delete at the granularity I'm used to. > These will be overwritten as soon as any changes are made to the share via the GUI. > But, Im concerned about two things, first of all, will I just mess > things up? Can I do unexpected damage from managing the permission from > a Windows box? The second concern (really the first one but dressed > differently) is that if you do attempt to make permission changes from a > Windows box it warns you that all inherited permissions will be > destroyed, looking at the permissions, there are no inherited > permissions to destroy, but the warning made me hang back and think > again. > Just bear in mind that any changes you make via Windows ACL management will be overwritten the next time you make changes via the GUI. R. _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users
