samba config

[Nadim Hoque]

Just to let you know I did mount the external in fstab already and all of my drives are ext 3 or 4 (ill check later). But I will try the group sticky notes. But other than these issues, is my smb.conf file pretty good? Another thing, do samba users also need the same passwords as the user on the linux machine?
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-----Original Message-----
From: Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:03:39 
To: Main PLUG discussion list<plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Subject: Re: samba config

On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 20:56 -0700, 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
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#1 - userland mounted external hard drives (/media) are not really
suitable for using with samba. Samba expects a root mount. Put your
entry into /etc/fstab for this external drive, mount it and leave it
alone. To get ACL's, I think you are going to need a file system that
supports extended attributes (and of course use them in /etc/fstab)
which tends to leave out the typical FAT/VFAT filesystems used in many
external hard drives.

#2 - you can create samba users/groups but they should either be the
same as system users/groups or you have to specifically map them. Note
that samba users have to have a password too.

#3 - You should probably set group permissions and even use group sticky
bits on subdirectories.

Craig



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