SME SMB

Problem You need to give Administrators or Power Users read access to users home folders The solution provided below should only be used for read access. Warning.png Warning: If an Administrator or Power User writes to the files in any users home folder, then those files will be given different ownership permissions and the o riginal user will no longer be able to read or write to, those files. Information.png Tip: Above issue could be resolved by giving admin users no write access, by not giving them the write access property. A drawback is that they can not add f iles or create folders either, as they only have read access. Solution Create a new sharename by means of a custom template with modified users access rights, which allows specified users to have read access If it does not already exist create the following folder mkdir -p /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/smb.conf Create a new template fragment cd /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/smb.conf pico -w 50userhomes-admin Paste or type the following code into the template: [userhomes] comment = Users home directories path = /home/e-smith/files/users/ valid users = admin root username1 username2 admin users = admin root username1 username2 write list = admin root username1 username2 browseable = yes guest ok = no public = no read only = no writable = yes printable = no create mode = 0660 force create mode = 0660 directory mode = 0770 force directory mode = 0770