Samba and Group permission

Jason Shein jason-xgs8i/e9EeWTtA8H5PvdGCwD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Fri Oct 22 15:15:56 UTC 2004


Martin Duclos wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am running a samba 3.0.4-1 server.  I want to create groups so that 
> I can control which user has access to which file. SO, I create a new 
> group by editing the /etc/group file. I add the users which are to 
> belong to that group. I modify the group permission on the files I 
> want the users of said group to have access to. One of the client 
> machines is a linux machine (but I suspect the same problem will show 
> up on a win machine). What I'm seeing is that the owner of the share 
> only has it's deafult group associated with it. I've been reading 
> through the samba docs and man pages but I haven't found a solution 
> yet. There must be some way to have a user be part of multiple groups 
> and have samba respect those - or is it just wishful thinking? Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Martin Duclos
>
>
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Try using ACL

http://www.bluelightning.org/linux/samba_acl_howto/



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