Dear all,
I'm new to Samba and am trying to set it up on an Ubuntu 12.04 system using
version 3.6.3 . Thanks to some great documentation, I actually have it
*working* as I had intended. However, there is something puzzling me which
I cannot figure out from any of the documentation I've seen (so far).
What I would like to do is to share 3 different sets of folders:
* home directories
* home-like directories -- a path where there are directories, one for each
user, inside
* a group directory -- for all users of a Unix group
This is what I have:
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
writeable = yes
create mask = 0700
directory mask = 0700
valid users = %S
; guest ok = no
[home2]
comment = Secondary Home Directories
path = /share/home2
browseable = no
writeable = yes
create mask = 0700
directory mask = 0700
valid users = user1 user2
; guest ok = no
[accounting]
comment = Account group
path = /share/accounting
browseable = no
writeable = yes
create mask = 0770
directory mask = 0770
valid users = @accounting
And surprisingly, it works! But, I'm not sure why...and would like to
understand why it is working and more importantly, is it a fluke that will
go away in a few days.
I understand "[homes]" is special and when Samba sees it, it looks for
user
accounts inside that directory.
But for both [homes2] and [accounting], I've given paths in two different
ways. The first, it is the path one-level up from what I want to share
(i.e., because I want it treated like a "home" directory). But with
the
second, I want to share /share/accounting and not /share/accounting/user1,
etc.
Somehow, it seems to work as I'd like it. Is there a reason why this
works? The alternative which I wanted to avoid was for [homes2], I'd have
to create one entry for each user on the system. So, I'm very happy it
works...just wondering why and if it is by some luck... :-)
Thank you!
Ray
