Re: [PLUG] Samba 3 question

["W. Chris Shank" <shankwc@acetechgroup.com>]

-Valid Users/Groups
user that are allowed to connect to a particular service - Read or Write access TBD by other settings

-Invalid Users/Groups

users that are never allowed to connect to a service 0 regardless of RW settings

-Possible Users/Groups

never heard of this

-Read only Users/Groups

can only read - users here with no valid user listing are assumed valid

-Read/write Users/Groups

same as above but with read and write

----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew M. Lauppe <alauppe@genevaglobal.com>
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 4:37:43 PM GMT-0500
Subject: [PLUG] Samba 3 question

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Hey everyone; this is my first post so Iâll introduce myselfâ

 

Iâm Andy Lauppe, and Iâm the Network Administrator for Geneva Global Inc. ( www.genevaglobal.com ). Weâre kind of a hybrid infrastructure (windows/linux) but anything I put in thatâs new is linux. Weâre hosting two CRM application servers in Red Hat and an Asterisk VoIP system in CentOS, but everything else is Ubuntu/Debian. Iâm kind of a newbie but I have been successful enough in my adventuresâ 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 Iâm 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 âinvalidâ like âdenyâ?

-          If a group is in the âvalid groupsâ, 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 CJâs 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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