Share Parameters
[homes] When you
create a user on your Linux pc (more on this later) it will automatically
create a home folder for you in /home/yourusername. Think of this
as your "My Documents" for Linux.
read only = no: By default Samba will always make
any directory read only for security reasons, so we need to let
Samba know that we want to be able to write to this directory.
browseable = no: defines when you map a network drive to
Samba, it will map directly to your user directory ie: \\home\mw
(this is my username on Linux and Samba) This share
/homes/mw is browseable only by you. Remember this is much the same as the
"My Documents" folder in Wndows
[Music] This will
create a share for mp3 storage. Again lets go over the share parameters
for this.
path = /data/mp3: This tells us the directory
is found on the Samba server as /data/mp3, later when we map the
network drive on the Windows pc, it will be seen as "music" in Network
Neighborhood
browseable = yes: This share will show in in Network Neighborhood
as "Music"
***To make this directory open
a terminal window and type in md /data/mp3. Or this can be done
from a file manager
public = yes: Specifies anyone can access and
view the contents of /data/mp3
write list = mw, Jackie: Although anyone can view and excute
(meaning see and play any mp3 in this directory). For security
and practical reasons I have set this share so that only mw
(thats me)and jackie can delete or add files. You can
add as many names as you wish to this line ie:, mw, john, tiffany
etc. To exclude any person from being able to access this share
altogether, add the line: invalid users = vicky, steve. These names
are the logon names from Windows, and are not case sensitive. They
also must have a logon name and Samba password on the Linux
pc.
In order for Samba to accomplish all this we need to
set certain Linux file permissions such as these. This can be done
by opening your file manager (in this case Konqueror) and right
clicking on the /data/mp3 share and choosing properties
.
[everyone] This will
create a share that is viewable, and writeable by anyone. This is
not at all a secure share. Anyone can do whatever they wish, including
deleting files that are not their own. I strongly
do not recommend this type of sharing. I have given this example
for illustrative reasons only.
path = /data/everyone: This tells us the directory is found
on the Samba server as /data/everyone, and that when we will map
the network drive it will be seen as "everyone" in Network Neighborhood
***To make this directory open
a terminal window and type in md /data/everyone. Or this can be done
from a file manager
read only = no: By default Samba will always make any
directory read only for security reasons, so we need to let Samba
know that we want to be able to write to this directory.
browesable = yes: This share will show in in Network Neighborhood
as "everyone"
In order for Samba to be able to allow anyone read, write
access to this share, we need to set certain Linux file permissions
such as these. This can be done by opening your file manager (in
this case Konqueror) and right clicking on the /data/everyone share
and choosing properties
