hi all.

i've installed samba with samba-vscan on ubuntu. the only way i can get this combination to work is to set permissions on the folder to be at least drwx---r-- (or in other words, the windows owner has full permissions, groups have none, other has read - this lets vscan work).

i also need to serve webpages from within these folders as the apache user, so this permission suits that too- however, i'm curious as to what the 'other' group refers to in a samba context. can anyone explain to me if i've made a security risk in doing this? ie. will any windows users other than the owner be able to look in these folders?

tia

john