samba - Sep 2024 - Configuration of numerous shares

Maybe someone here has the acquired experience necessary to answer this
question:

Since each share consumes resources, such as RAM and processing, which would
be the most effective scenario? Share a directory for each department, such
as:

Acounting
Finance
HumanResources

This soon leads to dozens of shares in my case.

The other option is to share only the top folder (Enterprise in the
following example), give users only traverse rights to that folder and
direct them to the respective subfolder, each with the appropriate
permissions: 

Enterprise/Acounting
Enterprise/Finance
Enterprise/HumanResources

With lots of potential shares, which one of these scenarios would you
recommend, in terms of both efficiency and security?

Thank you.

On Mon, 2 Sep 2024 18:36:16 +0100
miguel medalha via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> Maybe someone here has the acquired experience necessary to answer
> this question:
> 
> Since each share consumes resources, such as RAM and processing,
> which would be the most effective scenario? Share a directory for
> each department, such as:
> 
> Acounting
> Finance
> HumanResources
> 
> This soon leads to dozens of shares in my case.
> 
> The other option is to share only the top folder (Enterprise in the
> following example), give users only traverse rights to that folder and
> direct them to the respective subfolder, each with the appropriate
> permissions: 
> 
> Enterprise/Acounting
> Enterprise/Finance
> Enterprise/HumanResources
> 
> With lots of potential shares, which one of these scenarios would you
> recommend, in terms of both efficiency and security?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
> 
In the good old days, it used to be easier to setup individual shares
per user/group and set the relevant permissions on that share, but
nowadays it is probably easier to share a directory and then allow/deny
access to sub-directories via ACLs.

Rowland