[PLUG] Samba 3 question

["Andrew M. Lauppe" <alauppe@genevaglobal.com>]

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Hey everyone; this is my first post so I’ll introduce myself…

 

I’m Andy Lauppe, and I’m the Network Administrator for Geneva Global Inc. ( www.genevaglobal.com ). We’re kind of a hybrid infrastructure (windows/linux) but anything I put in that’s new is linux. We’re hosting two CRM application servers in Red Hat and an Asterisk VoIP system in CentOS, but everything else is Ubuntu/Debian. I’m kind of a newbie but I have been successful enough in my adventures… until today. The questions I seem to keep coming up with end up being just a little beyond the scope of the tutorials and forum posts I’m finding.

 

That brings me to my Samba question(s): Can someone explain to me, in the smb.conf, what is the logic behind the following user/group categories?

 

-Valid Users/Groups

-Invalid Users/Groups

-Possible Users/Groups

-Read only Users/Groups

-Read/write Users/Groups

 

Specifically:

-          Do you need to use them all?

-          Is ‘invalid’ like ‘deny’?

-          If a group is in the ‘valid groups’, does it also need to be in possible and read/write to have read/write access?

 

Maybe giving me an example would be easier. Say I have 2 groups; ShareRW and ShareR. I want the people in ShareRW to be able to browse, read, and write, and the people in ShareR to browse and read only. What is/are the possible configuration(s) for that scenario?

 

I really appreciate any help you all might be able to give. I have hired CJ’s group, LinuxForce, to implement some Samba stuff for me but his Samba guru is done for the day and I wanted to try to up my understanding a little in the meantime. Thanks again!

 

Andy

 

 

 

 

 

Geneva Global Inc.

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