[CS-FSLUG] best way to set up network permissions

[Tim Roettger]

Anytime your connecting windows and linux you should use Samba.  Alows
you to configure permissions and such, control what is shared, how many
different share folders and is HIGHLY configurable.  I'm not gonna even
attempt to go into configuration because there is a ton of resources for
it on the web, Samba.org I think it is has a ton of good info. The short
of it is that Samba will act like a 2000/nt server and allow directories
to be shared, you can even configure username/pw for them.  



Tim Roettger
"...let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares
us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us..."
Hebrews 12:1
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-----Original Message-----
From: Christiansource-bounces at ofb.biz
[mailto:Christiansource-bounces at ofb.biz] On Behalf Of David M.
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 4:58 PM
To: A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group.
Subject: [CS-FSLUG] best way to set up network permissions


Anyone here any good with Linux/Windows 98 networking?

I have set up WiFi networking between my mothers win98 and my Linux box,
and 
for starters for learning purposes, I "shared" my /mnt dirrectory which 
contains 4 fat32 partitions c, d, e, and f.

What I want to do is learn how I can share these directories, but not
exacly 
everything in them.

there is a directory in d that I would not like to share that I use for
both 
win and lin, but it is owned by root. I tried to change the owner of the

directory that I do not want to share to myself so I could only give
myself 
permission to RWX, but Mandrake keeps saying that root doesn't even have

enough permission to change the owner of that directory.

So here I think that my fstab file is what is stopping root from
changing the 
owner of that file, here is the fstab entry:

/dev/hdb8 /mnt/d vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0

Well is it my fstab entry thats preventing root from changing the owner
and am 
I on the right track to securing my folders I don't want the network to
see?

Also, since I am not very familiar with networking, I am very paranoid
about 
security at this point and would appreciate some tips and pointers.

Thanks
-- 
David M.

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