Samba Shares!

[Mintsoft]

Hi,

Does anyone know how on EARTH I can make a share that guests are read only for and only my login (rob) can write to?

No matter what I do I seem to end up with no access for anyone, read-only access for everyone or write for everyone!

Is it even possible?!

Thanks

Rob

[john]

The share permissions should be full control to everybody then do specific file permissions on it so its your Guest account / guest group read only, list contents and execute and specify your user account as full control over it.

[Mintsoft]

The share permissions should be full control to everybody then do specific file permissions on it so its your Guest account / guest group read only, list contents and execute and specify your user account as full control over it.

so I have to chmod the directory so only rob can write?

EDIT:

I just made a group called smbwrite, added rob to it then:

sudo chgrp smbwrite testdir
sudo chmod u=rw,g=rw,o=r testdir

but now no-one can access the directory over the shares, I just get 'network access denied' errors :/

EDIT.EDIT:

just noticed I forgot the x's on those permissions!
think thats got it now

cheers

[john]

Wow I only just realised I answered a *nix question with a Windows answer as I find nix pointless

[webman]

Narrow-minded Ballmer fan-boy

[Joedetic]

You find *nix pointless....a VAST majority of the internet is run by *nix...BSD and UNIX...

So in essence you find this site pointless? Without *nix/BSD/UNIX you wouldn't be able to get here.

Shame on you john

[Dos_Box]

Indeed. We do live on a Fedora distro.

[john]

Indeed. We do live on a Fedora distro.

No wonder were so sluggish at times and then spent time down

Sry that wasnt fair, but I find that my Windows Hosting Boxes never go wrong, never go down and are darned good and reliable, so just never found the need for anything other than Windows.

[webman]

Lol. Your loss :P

[j17sparky]

Hi,

Does anyone know how on EARTH I can make a share that guests are read only for and only my login (rob) can write to?

No matter what I do I seem to end up with no access for anyone, read-only access for everyone or write for everyone!

Is it even possible?!

Thanks

Rob

You not tried using Webmin to manage it?

With us being a school which will most likely never have anyone experianced in *nix again i always like tyo have a web interface even if i prefer to use CLI.
Also nice to be able to check between the 2 so you can see how the syntax works.