samba config

[Stephen]

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