On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Marcus Schopen wrote: > John H Terpstra wrote: > > On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Marcus Schopen wrote: > > > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>I read Volker Lendecke's *great* Samba book, but can't find an answer > >>to the following question: > >> > >>is it possible to hide, but read and write to files in a share? I'm not > >>talking about "hide files", because these files are still viewable on > >>windows (if option is set on client). > >> > >>The "veto files" option seems just to denie the access, so these files > >>are not read and writable anymore. > >> > >>I'm looking for something that is like apache's browseable option for > >>directories. You can't see what's in a directory, but can access via URL > >>_if you know the URL_. Or in other words: I want to share a directory > >>with read and write permissions, but don't want people to see what's in > >>this directory. In best case it should look like an empty directory, but > >>still be able to access (read+write) to file like > >>\\server\share\whatever.txt > >> > >>Is that possible and if yes how? > > > > > > Yes. Use Unix file system permissions as you should. Read chapter 13 of > > the Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf file that can be obtained from: > > > > http://us1.samba.org/samba/devl/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf > > > > Basically, you need to set the directory permissions to write and execute, > > but NOT read. That way the files in the directory will not be listed. > > > Hmmm, I set directory setting to chmod 773, but then I can't read or > write anymore to files in this dir: > > drwxrwx-wx 3 root root 4096 1. Aug 05:23 . > -rwxrwxr-- 1 root root 3418 1. Aug 03:44 pool.ini > -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3418 1. Aug 03:44 pool2.ini > > I connect from windows as a user from group "all other" (-wx). Reading > pool.ini is not possible anymore, as well as writing to pool2.ini. > > What's my mistake?
I just tried this and found that Windows will not allow word to open the file because it can not find it does not find the file in a directory lookup. This seems to be completely limiting. If this can be done in Windows XP but not in Samba then please file a bug report on bugzilla.samba.org. Thanks. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba