Samba Server Make Multiple User Permissions Profiles

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Published on 2012-11-12T04:54:42Z Indexed on 2012/11/12 5:15 UTC
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I have a Samba file server running, and I was wondering how I could make multiple user accounts that have different permissions. For example, at the moment I have a user, smbusr, but when I ssh to the share, I can read, write, execute, and even navigate out of the samba directory and do stuff on the actual computer. This is bad because I want to be able to give out my IP so friends/family can use the server, but I don't want them to be able to do just anything.

I want to lock the user in the samba share directory(and all the sub directories). Eventually I would like several profiles such as (smbusr_R, smbusr_RW, smbguest_R, smbguest_RW).

I also have a second question related to this, is SSH the best method to connect from other unix machines? What about VPN? Or simply mounting like this:

mount -t ext3 -o user=username //ipaddr/share /mnt/mountpoint

Is that mounting command above the same thing as a vpn? This is really confusing me.

Thanks for the help guys, let me know if you need to see any files, or need anymore information.

Samba Server Make Multiple User Permissions Profiles

Posted by Scriptonaut on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Scriptonaut
Published on 2012-11-12T04:51:46Z Indexed on 2012/11/12 5:02 UTC
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I have a Samba file server running, and I was wondering how I could make multiple user accounts that have different permissions. For example, at the moment I have a user, smbusr, but when I ssh to the share, I can read, write, execute, and even navigate out of the samba directory and do stuff on the actual computer. This is bad because I want to be able to give out my IP so friends/family can use the server, but I don't want them to be able to do just anything.

I want to lock the user in the samba share directory(and all the sub directories). Eventually I would like several profiles such as (smbusr_R, smbusr_RW, smbguest_R, smbguest_RW).

I also have a second question related to this, is SSH the best method to connect from other unix machines? What about VPN? Or simply mounting like this:

mount -t ext3 -o user=username //ipaddr/share /mnt/mountpoint

Is that mounting command above the same thing as a vpn? This is really confusing me.

Thanks for the help guys, let me know if you need to see any files, or need anymore information.

Samba Server Make Multiple User Permissions Profiles

Posted by Scriptonaut on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Scriptonaut
Published on 2012-11-12T04:52:50Z Indexed on 2012/11/12 5:03 UTC
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I have a Samba file server running, and I was wondering how I could make multiple user accounts that have different permissions. For example, at the moment I have a user, smbusr, but when I ssh to the share, I can read, write, execute, and even navigate out of the samba directory and do stuff on the actual computer. This is bad because I want to be able to give out my IP so friends/family can use the server, but I don't want them to be able to do just anything.

I want to lock the user in the samba share directory(and all the sub directories). Eventually I would like several profiles such as (smbusr_R, smbusr_RW, smbguest_R, smbguest_RW).

I also have a second question related to this, is SSH the best method to connect from other unix machines? What about VPN? Or simply mounting like this:

mount -t ext3 -o user=username //ipaddr/share /mnt/mountpoint

Is that mounting command above the same thing as a vpn? This is really confusing me.

Thanks for the help guys, let me know if you need to see any files, or need anymore information.

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