I oddly enough cheat on samba and use webmin to navigate its configuration. it helps quite a bit. http://www.webmin.com/ On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Nadim Hoque wrote: > Hey > So I switched to ubuntu server 9.10 and I need to configure samba. What I > want to do is share folders in which only the owner has access to. For > instance I want to share my external drive and I am the owner of that folder > and only if I put my credentials based off of the server information > regarding my account. Now I also want possibly other groups to have access > as well (this does not have to be just this folder in general), essentially > I want it to use acls. Below is the config file that I currently have. When > I was using open suse it allowed be to use current users on the system as > users for samba. > [global] >         workgroup = WORKGROUP >         encrypt passwords = yes >         wins support = no >         max log size = 2000 >         passdb backend = tdbsam > [homes] >         comment = %u's Home Directory >         browsable = no >         read only = no >         map archive = yes > [My_Book] >         comment = This is the My book with the movies/tvshows >         inherit acls = Yes >         path = /media/My\ Book >         guest ok = no >         read only = No > #       write = Yes > #       valid users = nadim > [common] >         comment = This is the common forlder on the local hard drive >         inherit acls = yes >         path = /home/common >         guest ok = no >         read only = no > #       write = yes >         valid users = nadim grant > > -- > Nadim HoqueNadim Hoque > Computer Science > The School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering > cell: 480-518-6235 > nadimhoque@gmail.com > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss