We're running Samba 2.0.6 on AIX 4.3.2.0 Is there a home page for SWAT or somewhere else that I can look to see what smb.conf parameters SWAT supports? I prefer editing the smb.conf file with vi, but some of the administrators here like to use SWAT. A while back, I put an include line into the smb.conf file to get around differences between our WinNT and Win95/98 machines. A couple days ago, one of my colleagues used SWAT to make some changes, and apparently it removed the include line in the same way it removes comments. This was a bad thing. I'd like to find out if there's other parameters this might happen with. Has anyone had similar experiences? If you have, do you know of a way to get around it besides not using the said parameters? Adam Miller adam@sab.wels.net -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
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What features does SWAT support? (maybe bug)
Adam, SWAT is 100% syntactically correct and support almost all options in smb.conf, except for comments. I've been using SWAT and quite happy but nothing can replace editing smb.conf directly using a text editor. Mon We're running Samba 2.0.6 on AIX 4.3.2.0 Is there a home page for SWAT or somewhere else that I can look to see what smb.conf parameters SWAT supports? I prefer editing the smb.conf file with vi, but some of the administrators here like to use SWAT. A while back, I put an include line into the smb.conf file to get around differences between our WinNT and Win95/98 machines. A couple days ago, one of my colleagues used SWAT to make some changes, and apparently it removed the include line in the same way it removes comments. This was a bad thing. I'd like to find out if there's other parameters this might happen with. Has anyone had similar experiences? If you have, do you know of a way to get around it besides not using the said parameters? Adam Miller adam@sab.wels.net
Hi all (and hopefully also someone of the samba team),
I want a shared directory to be visible only to the members of a group, and
to no one else. Instead, a shared directory is either visible to everyone
(browseable=yes) or to no-one (browseable=no). When a non-authorised user
enters the shared directory, she gets an error message. That's good. But
since the user cannot use the share anyway, I want her not to see the share
in the list.
In the newsgroup comp.protocols.smb they told me it was not possible. I
have considered using a clever "include" statement, but it seems not
possible to make an include depend on user ID. In the FAQ, the HowTo en the
man pages I found no solution, and not even a mention of this problem.
Is such browseable-by-group behaviour really is not supported? Is there any
chance it will be supported in the future?
I have worked as a programmer, and I think it would be a small effort to
create a smb.conf statement like:
browseable-by-group = @groupname
or:
browseable = @groupname
or:
browseable = valid users
to make sure only members of a certain group see the share listed. It would
enhance useability of Samba, and it would take away the only advantage of
Windows NT server (IMHO). I would like to help to program this option, but
I have no experience in programming for Linux environments, except for some
super simple shell scripts.
Is it difficult to start programming for Linux/Samba, for someone with
Windows programming experience? What is the best start for such an undertaking?
Onno
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On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Onno Zweers wrote:> > Is it difficult to start programming for Linux/Samba, for someone withAt 23:30 28-8-00 +0200, Urban Widmark wrote:>Not really. The basic tools of the programming environment is pretty >standardized (gcc, gnu make, gnu binutils) and are normally installed when >installing the linux dist. >[...]Thanks for your tips. Maybe it will take me a few months to find the time to program it, but I think I will do it. Best regards, Onno -- Onno Zweers, automatisering mailto:onno@verweij.com Verweij Fashion BV http://www.verweij.com