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On Mon, 16 May 2005 13:35:06 +0100 (BST) Martin White wrote:
And of course, by Samba i also mean Windows print and file sharing. Least i think so anyway, i prepare myself to stand corrected :) What i'm certainly trying to say is that i don't think you need to worry about it since the server aspect of file and printer sharing (or samba) should handle it for you. Martin.
You've kind of hit the nail there. SMB doesn't really deal with filesystem permissions (NTFS on Windows or ext2/3/reiser/whatever on Linux). It will send "authentication data" to higher level protocols (Windows filesystem stack, or Linux's filesystem stack) to determine whether a user has permission to read/write any particular directory/file, but SMB itself doesn't support complex permissions. The way one of my Microsoft instructors explained it to me was that permission to a given remote file is like going through 2 separate gates. One gate is called SMB and the other gate is called FS. If a user has permission to go through both gates then they will be able to perform actions on the remote file. Neither gate, however, determines the other gate's permissions. Now, I hope that makes sense written down because I've just re-read it and it looks like random rantings to me :D Grant. -- Artificial intelligence is no match for nuratal stidutipy. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html