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 <
nadimhoque@gmail.com> 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
>
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> Nadim HoqueNadim Hoque
> Computer Science
> The School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering
> cell: 480-518-6235
> nadimhoque@gmail.com
>
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