writable subfolder w/ samba

Ricky · Guru Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 341

Hi, I have a question, and I haven't been able to find the answer via searching or tinkering. :oops:

What I want to do is have a subfolder of a shared folder writable, but not the shared folder itself, via samba using guest access. For example, I have a folder 'shareme' with a bunch of files in it, that is not writable, and I want a subfolder 'writeme' that users can save files to. How do I make shareme/writeme writable?

Thanks.

fleed · l33t Joined: 28 Aug 2002 Posts: 756 Location: London

Just an idea, maybe not the best: Mount the samba as user, make the read-only directory owned by a different user, master, say. This way the users wont be able to write to the files owned by master (if you set permissions appropriately) but will have full access to the other folders.

Jesore · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 12:54 pm Post subject:

Actually this is the official way to do this as far as I know. The samba acess rights do count for the whole defined share, not single files/dirs withing the share. That is realized via the normal file permissions.
I assume that not only guests will access this share, so I can't tell you in all details how to do it unless you explain to us, but I'd just chown the whole share dirs to nonguestuser:GUESTGROUP and set the group bit accordingly to r or rw as you need it. The "nonguestuser" gets write permissions everywhere.
If your setup is more complex, tell me - there are tons of possibilities

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Jesore

Ricky · Guru Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 341

Yeah, this works. I tried it before, and the reason it didn't work is because the group couldn't read like two or three parent folders up. Now don't I look silly? :oops:

Thanks for your help.

Jesore · Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 3:17 pm Post subject:

Not really - I've done things far more stupid.
No, I'm not telling !

Jesore