Thomas Kreft wrote:
I have a rather complex access setup for my users home-directories. This is because a) All users have to be able to read other users files (minus some private folders) b) Some users additionally have write access to specific (not: all!) home-directories
So a user Joe also has a group called 'Joe' with members Joe, Tim and Kate. Hence, Joe, Tim and Kate may write to /home/joe. I do this by editing smb.conf as follows:
[homes] valid users = @users write list = @%g browseable = No create mask = 0660 directory mask = 0770
Now the question is: How do I provide the users with an easy way to access the various 'homes', ie. via a mapped network drive, and STILL preserve the 'write list' option of the smb.conf?
Of course, the users could type "\\SERVERNAME" into their windows explorer, or browse through the network neighbourhood everytime, but this is rather inconvenient.
Or I could create a share with symlinks to all the home folders, but this would deprive me of the individual 'write list' access control.
Hope I could make myself clear! Any ideas are highly appreciated, I'm completely lost.
Thomas
Hallo Thomas, I would solve your problem this way: I would create home folders like you have done /home/joe , /home/tim ... I would create group folders like /group/joe, /group/...
in smb.conf : [homes] comment = private browseable = yes create mask = 0700 directory mask = 0700 public = no writeable = yes
[group] comment = group directory path = /group/%g create mask = 0770 directory mask = 0770 force directory mode = 0770 force create mode = 0770 public = no writeable = yes
in logon.bat: net use x: \\server\homes net use y: \\server\group
In this way, data in x:\ are private f.e. joe,
data in y:\ are readable and writeable for the whole group f. e. joe, tim and kate.
Sabine
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