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

[David M.]

On Wednesday 14 July 2004 08:17 pm, Tim Roettger wrote:
> 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.

I'm using Samba, and oh yeah it does have a million or so configuration 
parameters.. : - )

I'll see if samba's website will do me some good.

I feel sorry for net admins, man thats a lot of stuff to remember.
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> 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

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David M.