Re: per user samba

[LeVA <leva@az.isten.hu>]

Stephen Patterson wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 07:10:13 +0200, LeVA wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to setup samba, to enable the users to share files/dirs 
> > under their home dirs. Under kde/konqueror there is an option to share 
> > files, and if I'm root under kde I can setup to allow the users to share 
> > files/dirs under their home dir or to not to allow anything. But this 
> > isn't working, and I think it's because the samba config.
> > So can I setup samba to allow a simple user, who doesn't have root 
> > privilages to share some stuff in his home dir. I guess it will be a 
> > ~/.smb file or something like that, but that I don't know :)
>
>
> The way I'd do it as a samba admin is to create a share directory that
> all the users have access to and have them put the files in there.
> Alternatively, as /home is more generic than /home/user, make /home
> world writeable (chmod 0777), but keep /home/user user-only (chmod 0700).

Hi!

Thanks for the advice. But I still need a user defined config file for 
samba. I mean there must be a file called ~/.samba.conf or ~/.smb.conf 
or whatever, where a simple user can maintain his own shares, probably 
under his own home dir.
Does samba support a file like this?

Thanks!

Daniel

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LeVA