[UniMacTech] "valid users" attribute for SMB shares with Leopard Server

[Declan McQuay]

Mark,

I'd think the easiest way is to make user groups for those who need 
access to those shares, and set the protocol options for everyone under 
SMB to none. Just set the group under Permissions to the name of the 
group who needs access.

- Declan

Mark Szota wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> I am setting up a couple of share points via Samba using Leopard 
> Server, what I want to know is if I can add a Samba "valid users" 
> attribute to some configuration file so that I can restrict shares to 
> a partiuclar user? As it stands I have all my shares setup, and have 
> the ACL's modified so that only the username I want can read & write 
> to them. However other Samba users (who I want to access other SMB 
> shares) can actually log in to a share, but then get a mount error 
> because they don't have enough permissions to do anything. I have set 
> the POSIX and ACL permissions this way to stop them from accessing or 
> modifying anything. I have also set Service ACL's so that users I want 
> can access the Samba service. This seems to be the best result I can 
> get so far.
>
> What I would like is for them to not even be able to authenticate to 
> an SMB share they should not have access to (rather than just getting 
> a mount error), which from memory is what the "valid users" attribute 
> will allow me to do. Do I need to do some voodoo magic with ACL's or 
> POSIX permissions, or is there a way I can do what I want via GUI 
> tools or at the command line? Or worse yet, have I missed something 
> completely obvious ? :)
>
> The /etc/smb.conf file seems to be just a fairly generic template, 
> there are no share-specific settings in it, so I assume they are 
> stored in some other file, but I do not know where..
>
> Hope that makes sense!
>
> Cheers
> Mark
>
>


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