[LUNI] Fine tuning my samba setup

[Trev Peterson]

Hey Jay,

The problem is that the access rules are changing.  Samba will assume
they are the same for each subdir unless you tell it differently (via a
new share).  So for example you have:

/opt/FCM which is read/write by everyone but only the owner can
read/write their files

/opt/FCM/everyone which is read/write by everyone (as FCM or via group)
and everyone can see the all the files

The access rules from /opt/FCM have changed.  If

/opt/FCM/everone/dir1 is read/write by everyone but only the owner can
read/write their files

The access rules from /opt/FCM/everyone have changed.


By changing your directory structure to something like:

/opt/FCM (read/write by everyone)
/opt/FCM/jblum (read/write by jblum and jstrauss)
/opt/FCM/phillips (read/write by jblum and jstrauss)

you minimizes the number of times the access rules change and simplify
the configuration.  You still need to change the config (read make a new
share) each time the access rules change.  You can likely find a hack
around this (by using the file-system behaviour) but it will likely be
ugly and not easily maintained (I can think of one possibility but don't
recommend it).

I hope this explains what I meant,

	Trev

On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 07:44 -0500, Jay Strauss wrote:

> Trev,
> 
> I'm unsure about what you mean about "tell samba what rules you want
> each time they change"?
> 
> Thanks
> Jay
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Trev Peterson
Advanced Reality
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