[CentOS] Samba share configuration: r/w for some users, read-only for others

Fri Jun 25 15:27:06 UTC 2010
Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>

On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 16:20 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using Samba for some basic setups like open shares for everybody, or 
> restricted shares with Samba users and passwords. So far, everything 
> works fine.
> 
> I have two situations which both more or less amount to the same, and I 
> don't know how to configure it. One is in a school, the other one in a 
> town hall.
> 
> 1) In the school, I'd like to configure a share that is readable and 
> writable for all the teachers, and read-only for the students. The idea 
> is that the teachers can write some assignments or various papers and 
> then put them in the share so the students can access them (without 
> modifying them).
> 
> 2) Similar setup in the town hall. The mayor wants to have a share where 
> he and his secretary can fully access the documents, write them and 
> modify them, and the library users can then access them read-only.
> 
> Is this feasible with Samba? And if so, what would the according 
> smb.conf look like?
> 
> Cheers from the sunny South of France,
----
yes, the same type of scenario

chgrp teachers /share/files -R
chmod 775 /share/files -R
chmod g+s /share/files

[sharename]
   path = /share/files
   public = yes
   browsable = yes
   printable = no
   create mode = 775
   directory mode = 775
   inherit permissions = yes

Craig


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