Re: [gentoo-user] Samba basics

[Daniel da Veiga]

On Nov 22, 2007 2:46 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
> Thanks Stroller,
>
> On Thursday 22 November 2007, Stroller wrote:
> > On 22 Nov 2007, at 08:43, Mick wrote:
> > > ...
>
> > My experience is that stuff like this is not completely-obvious-to-
> > newcomers in Samba, and I wouldn't rely on it working just like you
> > might expect.
>
> Hmm, I know what you mean!  :)
>
> > You might consider posting on the Samba mailing lists,
> > which are quite busy.
>
> Thanks, I'll look into it.
>
> > > The Windows file manager still displays the
> > > (Linux) user home directory and a file called printers.  Is there a
> > > way of
> > > removing these two items from the Windows client view?
> >
> > The easy way to do this is to remove the [homes] & [printers]
> > sections of your smb.conf (NOT smb.cfg, on my system), but of course
> > that also prevents access to them.
>
> Is there a way to do this selectively for different users?  Some cannot be
> trusted to even look after their own linux home directories and leaving them
> visible will give rise to unnecessary queries.

What I'll suggest is not directly related to your Samba config
problem. It is something I found very useful while setting up my own
samba server. I guess there's even a USE flag for it. Its SWAT, its a
web based management program to control Samba settings. It is very
useful and user-friendly.

You should give it a try.

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