Hello all...

New to linux (obviously)

I have been tasked with setting up a Samba server at work. It is a school. I am net admin, help desk and on-site support and I am going out of my mind with calls and jobs.. so I could really use some help to get this up and running as quickly as possible. So thanks in advance.

I have all stations browsing to home directories just fine no problems there. What I need is a common directory so the students can read their lessons... the instructor is the only user with write and execute access to this dir. Also, the instructor need sufficient rights to browse all students directories in order to grade files. This is an Adobe Graphics class by the way.

I've tried so many things in the smb.conf that I have been turned around completely and I don't know what to try next.

Thanks again...

Check out this for more info on how to set up the instructors:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ghlight=KevinJ

You will be changing things on the "common" directory though instead of the home directory.

Now, creating a simple Samba directory share is not diffcult and you should be able to accomplish that just by reading the smb.conf. There are plenty of examples in that file.

What exactly are you having trouble with?

-KevinJ

[someshare]
comment = Your Comment
path = /somefolder
read only = yes
write list = @teachers


create a group called teachers and add the teachers to it

[Public]
comment = Public Folder (Share Files Here)
path = /home/pub
invalid users = *
valid users = @users
read only = No


add whoever you want to access it to the users group or pick another group to use
this one by default everyone will have read access to everything. But they will own their files. No one can delete others files

check this out for an example of several groups

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...8800#post38800

Thank you...

Here is what is working right now...

1. Home directories are visible and writable from win98 stations.
2. Public folder is visible and read only.


Not working...

1. Users in root group cannot write to public folder from windows


[global]
workgroup = workgroup name
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 50
security = user
encrypt passwords = no
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd\



[homes]
comment = Lesson Folders
browseable = no
writable = yes
create mode = 0664
directory mode = 0775

[public]
path = /usr/public
public = yes
write list = root

I haven't moved on to the instructor section yet... thanks for all the help fellas

new problem... I don't remember doing anything different but now I cannot browse to the samba server from windows anymore. I was doing it just fine then after a reboot it was gone.

I can '\\ip address' but no browsing. Any ideas as to wht I could have done to cause this?

browser election problem.. solved

All problems are solved except 1...

I need the instructor to be able to log onto a windows machine and browse all of the students home directories. Am I allowed to share out the home directory so the instructor can see all folders inside it? or is that some sort of linux no-no?

you will need to make a group and chown .group everything they need to access, and maybe chmod it also


add the teacher to the group

see man smb.conf for details on using

force group
force create mode
force security mode
force directory mode
force directory security mode

homedir map

you can use homedir map to set the teachers home directory to be /home

instead of /home/$user