What I'm tring to do is allow certain people to certain services, but not to sub-directories of those services. Example: John doe needs to have Read/Write access to /usr/qual but Read only access to /usr/qual/data. And Jane doe needs Read only access to /usr/qual but Read/Write access to /usr/qual/data. Then Jack might need Read/Write access to the whole tree. The only way I see it is to have different services for each directory and to structure the directory tree so that every situation gets covered. This would make Jack mount many Services and adjust programs to accommodate this. Also since data that is being stored from many applications, this is not very feasible. Have I missed something, or is this an NT "feature" you kept with Samba. __________________________________________________ Dave.Hazelton@Sanmina.com (603)621-1853 Sanmina - New England - Plant 9
You wrote: | What I'm trying to do is allow certain people to certain services, but | not to sub-directories of those services. Are Unix permissions insufficient for some reason? Samba provides a higher level permission structure that overrides Unix (Mandatory access control, instead of Unix's voluntary access control), for hard problems. I'd normally try to solve the easy problems with permissions. Admittedly this sometimes doesn't suffice! (Witness the discussion of Solaris ACLS on the list recently). --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify some people 185 Ellerslie Ave., | and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain Willowdale, Ontario | davecb@hobbes.ss.org, canada.sun.com M2N 1Y3. 416-223-8968 | http://java.science.yorku.ca/~davecb