Recipe 23.10. Creating Public Shares for Users

23.10.1 Problem

You have several project teams or departments that would like to share files, so you would like to create some Samba shares for them to use.

23.10.2 Solution

Simply create the shares, then use Samba's access controls to control access to the shares:

[qa-group]

   comment = qa group's shared files

   path = /var/share/qagroup

   valid users = helix  patti  devdas  @qausers

   browseable = yes

   writable = yes

23.10.3 Discussion

Users who are authorized to access the share can freely upload and download documents. You can set these shares to be non-browseable with browseable = no, so that only valid users can see the shares. Extremely sensitive documents should not be on a Samba share; it's better to use OpenSSH or rsync-over-ssh (see Chapters 16 and 17).

23.10.4 See Also

• smb.conf(5)