[Solved] user specific shared folder rights

[thyscorpion]

hi,

I am a pretty new Kubuntu (linux in general) user. And have been using samba sharing on my kubuntu for a few months now..

• Currently i have one user name n password to get access to all my shared folders on my kubuntu machine.

• what i wanted to do is give specific read/write/no access rights to folders depending on the user name and password used to access the shared folders.
  i access the shared folders from both another kubuntu machine and a windows XP machine.

• is there any detailed easy to understand tutorial or guide to help me out in this?

Thanks for taking time to read my inquiry :-)

[Fintan]

Re: user specific shared folder rights

Try this:
http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/...TO-Collection/

I hope that helps.

If you change your smb.conf, please do it manually because of this:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3083305.0

I hope this helps

[thyscorpion]

Re: user specific shared folder rights

hi, thanks for the links. :-) i now understand that to add a new user u need to do

sudo useradd -s /bin/true guru
sudo smbpasswd -L -a guru
sudo smbpasswd -L -e guru

here guru being a user i am adding.
i already had a username 'ankur' which was being used to share all the folders till now.

and i added guru user name to the samba share option after right clicking on the folder i wanted to share. {plz see attached img 'three.png'}

but when i try to connect the folder via my windows box, it gives me the folowwing error {please see 'one.jpeg' n 'two.jpeg'}

Please note that i have other folders also shared and they all work fine (under both user names 'ankur' n 'guru'). but only this folder is not accessable!

What could i be doing wrong? i know its not a samba problem (i think), i feel the kubuntu machine is not letting me even view the folder either as ankur or guru.

please help!

[Fintan]

Re: user specific shared folder rights

Could you post your /etc/samba/smb.conf so we can have a look?

What kind file type is that folder you want to share? fat32, NTFS, or something else.

[thyscorpion]

Re: user specific shared folder rights

The file system is ext3 of that partition.

The folder in question is '[MUSIC DUMP (175)]', below is the copy of the smb.conf

[global]
workgroup = DESI

[ABC DOWNLOAD local I]
path = /home/ankur/ABC downloads/
guest ok = yes

[DROP FILES H]
path = /home/ankur/drop files here/
guest ok = yes
read only = no

[ABC DOWNLOADS III]
path = /media/hdb6/ABC Downloads III/
guest ok = yes

[ABC DOWNLOAD IV (157)]
path = /media/newhdd157gb/ABC Downloads IV (157GB)/
guest ok = yes

[MUSIC DUMP (175)]
path = /media/newhdd157gb/Music dump
guest ok = yes
read only = no
read list = ankur
write list = guru
case sensitive = no
strict locking = no
msdfs proxy = no

[Fintan]

Re: user specific shared folder rights

If it is the "music dump" file that is giving you a problem and you are on Kubuntu Feisty, then you will have to comment out the line:
msdfs proxy = no (to look like this: #msdfs proxy = no) as mentioned in the link I sent you.
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3083305.0

Furthermore ext3 files are not natively seen by windows xp so I assume you have a tool installed as this folder ([ABC DOWNLOAD IV (157)]) seems to work. If not google for one. There are plenty of info on this subject within google.
www.google.com

I hope this helps you further

[javierrivera]

Re: user specific shared folder rights

Fintan is right, this msdfs line is probably the culproght. But...

You should probably change that box, above in the dialog that talks about unkown users to "Deny all" .

As it is now, every user is able to see your share.

Javier.

[Fintan]

Re: user specific shared folder rights

right on javier, I missed that OOOOPS.
When you modify that, check your smb.conf file again to make sure that
"msdfs proxy = no" is not put back in. That is unfortunately part of the bug. If it was put back in comment it out again.

[thyscorpion]

Re: user specific shared folder rights

@Fintan
Thanks :-) it worked. i commented the msdfs line and it works like a breeze!.

@Javier
thanks for pointing it out. i tried to change the allow all in teh GUI, but it never changed the .conf file. so i edited the smb.conf file itself and replaced

guest ok = yes

With

guest ok = no

Hope i did it right! :-)

[Fintan]

Re: [Solved] user specific shared folder rights

Yep. looks good.
I am happy we could help