[SOLVED] Trying to create several public shares in Samba

[mscharley]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to set up Samba with several shares. This is for a home network, so I'm more than happy to have guest only access, and in fact want to do it that way, but several of the shares I want to set up are drop-box style folders for different network services, with different users that need access to them. Originally I was planning to just set up each of these directories as read/write for those users, then set up samba as using that user also for it's guest access but it seems that the 'guest account' parameter is only available at the global level, so that option isn't viable.

Anyone have some advice for how I can set this up?

To help illustrate the problem, I have this:

[cwr]

Isn't there an example of this in the sample /etc/samba/smb.conf?

Will

[mscharley]

Not really. The only example I could find in smb.conf.default is the following group based solution:

[cwr]

Yes, that was the example I was thinking of; sorry it doesn't match.

Will

[kimmie]

You can just set "force user" to whatever you want for each share, eg.

[mscharley]

Hey, that's working perfectly.

Awesome, thanks Kimmie

[kimmie]

np