andy baxter <a...@earthsong.free-online.co.uk> writes: > hi all, > > I am setting up a file server for a small company. The people who will > be using it want to be able to control who accesses particular > directories on a user/group basis. I originally thought that it would > be enough to set up a standard samba system with unix home > directories, plus shares for each group of users (admin / tech etc.), > but they are keen to have a system which allows them to make some > parts of the filesystem available to more than one group, which as far > as I know isn't supported by this kind of setup. (Unless I were to > have shares for each possible combination of groups...)
> > I think that to achieve this I will need to set up samba with unix > ACLs, but I'm not sure what's the best way of doing this - the two > options seem to be using a patched kernel with an ext3 filesystem, or > else using the XFS filesystem which has built in ACL support. Which of > these would you recommend? Hi, I did approximately same thing with samba and bind-mounts. When user logs in "shares" (not visible to samba) are mount -bind:ed under users homedir with 'root preexec'. Obviously You need intelligence in the root preexec -script to decide what directories user wants to see at any particular time :) Or mount all directories user has rights reading and/or writing to. 'root postexec' does the unmounting afterwards. > > The XFS option seems a lot simpler to maintain (no need to patch the > kernel every time an update is released), but I'm worried that because > this filesystem is not used so much, it may not be as reliable as > ext3. > > Thanks for any help with this, > > andy baxter, lancaster UK. -- -- Perttu Muurimäki perttu.muurim...@iki.fi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87sk675xdi....@elisanet.fi
