CentOS - Jun 2010 - Samba share configuration: r/w for some users, read-only for others

Hi,

I'm using Samba for some basic setups like open shares for everybody, or 
restricted shares with Samba users and passwords. So far, everything 
works fine.

I have two situations which both more or less amount to the same, and I 
don't know how to configure it. One is in a school, the other one in a 
town hall.

1) In the school, I'd like to configure a share that is readable and 
writable for all the teachers, and read-only for the students. The idea 
is that the teachers can write some assignments or various papers and 
then put them in the share so the students can access them (without 
modifying them).

2) Similar setup in the town hall. The mayor wants to have a share where 
he and his secretary can fully access the documents, write them and 
modify them, and the library users can then access them read-only.

Is this feasible with Samba? And if so, what would the according 
smb.conf look like?

Cheers from the sunny South of France,

Niki

Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Samba for some basic setups like open shares for everybody,
or
> restricted shares with Samba users and passwords. So far, everything 
> works fine.
>
> I have two situations which both more or less amount to the same, and I 
> don't know how to configure it. One is in a school, the other one in a 
> town hall.
>
> 1) In the school, I'd like to configure a share that is readable and 
> writable for all the teachers, and read-only for the students. The idea 
> is that the teachers can write some assignments or various papers and 
> then put them in the share so the students can access them (without 
> modifying them).
>
> 2) Similar setup in the town hall. The mayor wants to have a share where 
> he and his secretary can fully access the documents, write them and 
> modify them, and the library users can then access them read-only.
>
> Is this feasible with Samba? And if so, what would the according 
> smb.conf look like?
>   
Easily.  The conf would look something like this:

[sharename]
   path = /home/share
   public = yes
   writeable = no
   write list = user1, user2, user3
   browsable = yes
   printable = no
> Cheers from the sunny South of France,
>   
Cheers from the sunny south of the USA (Florida).   :)

-- 
Bowie

On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 16:20 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using Samba for some basic setups like open shares for everybody,
or
> restricted shares with Samba users and passwords. So far, everything 
> works fine.
> 
> I have two situations which both more or less amount to the same, and I 
> don't know how to configure it. One is in a school, the other one in a 
> town hall.
> 
> 1) In the school, I'd like to configure a share that is readable and 
> writable for all the teachers, and read-only for the students. The idea 
> is that the teachers can write some assignments or various papers and 
> then put them in the share so the students can access them (without 
> modifying them).
> 
> 2) Similar setup in the town hall. The mayor wants to have a share where 
> he and his secretary can fully access the documents, write them and 
> modify them, and the library users can then access them read-only.
> 
> Is this feasible with Samba? And if so, what would the according 
> smb.conf look like?
> 
> Cheers from the sunny South of France,
----
yes, the same type of scenario

chgrp teachers /share/files -R
chmod 775 /share/files -R
chmod g+s /share/files

[sharename]
   path = /share/files
   public = yes
   browsable = yes
   printable = no
   create mode = 775
   directory mode = 775
   inherit permissions = yes

Craig


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