[nflug] Samba

[Cyber Source]

That is no problem and it all can be accomplished with the "valid user" 
parameter. I would suggest thoroughly reading through a "man smb.conf". 
Here is an excerpt from that man..

To restrict a service to a particular set of users you can use the
valid users parameter.

If any of the usernames begin with a ’@’ then the name will be
looked up first in the NIS netgroups list (if Samba is compiled with
netgroup support), followed by a lookup in the UNIX groups database
and will expand to a list of all users in the group of that name.

If any of the usernames begin with a ’+’ then the name will be
looked up only in the UNIX groups database and will expand to a list
of all users in the group of that name.

If any of the usernames begin with a ’&’ then the name will be
looked up only in the NIS netgroups database (if Samba is compiled
with netgroup support) and will expand to a list of all users in the
netgroup group of that name.

Note that searching though a groups database can take quite some
time, and some clients may time out during the search.


Robert Wolfe wrote:
> On Thursday 07 August 2008 16:07:57 Darin Perusich wrote:
>   
>> Can you give an example of what you're trying accomplish?
>>
>> Robert Wolfe wrote:
>>     
>>>> What specifically are you trying to do with group permissions,
>>>> restrict/grant access?
>>>>         
>>> Correct.
>>>       
>
>
> Basically, we have a Windows 2000 Advanced Server file server set up on our 
> network.  Each department has it's own group set up and each user can be in 
> one or more department.  Each department has its own folder set up on the 
> file server.  So, for instance, our billing department can only access the 
> billing folder, but not the Systems folder, whereas the Systems department 
> (where I work, has access to the Systems folder and every other folder).  
> There are also departments that overlap, too.  For example, our networking 
> department's folder is shared by Systems and Networking, but no one else.
>
> I know with Windows 2000, I can assign multiple groups to each user; what I 
> want to do here is be able to do the same thing with Samba -- both with and 
> without MySQL-based authentication.
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