samba - Aug 2000 - Making a share visible only to members of a group

Hi,
> 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
I tried to realize this by using include like: #include smb.conf.%G
But it did not work correctly. Sometimes the share was visible,
sometimes it wasnt,
and if it was visible, network path wasnt found afterwards.

> 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. 
Which is a nice idea. I would prefer this solution to includes. At least
it
should work both.
> 
> Onno
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Onno wrote:
| 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.

	You'll have to speak to Microsoft about changing thge
	protocol to do that (;-))

	Seriously, though, you can group the shares you want
	visible by server, and tell all the people in sales,
	for example, to use the SALES server.  
	[See http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch04_07.html
	for an example of how to do this from a single copy of Samba]

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