David Frascone wrote on Tuesday 31 July 2007: > /media (rw to me and my wife, ro for guests) > /public (rw to me and my wife, ro for guests) > /private (rw to me and my wife, no other access) > > And, normal (rw) to owners of /home/USER. > 1) How do I implement a "guest" account? Make a third account? Samba already knows the concept of a "guest". All you have to do is tell samba, who guest actually is. You can do this in the [global] section with guest account = nobody > 2) Is there any way to have both accounts (mine and my wife) create > files with permissions 777 when we write to shared space, but normal > permissions (700) when we write to our home directories? First, the special section name [homes] will create a service for every user pointing to the user's home directory. That is the easiest way to make homes sharable. You access this share with \\hostname\username. Type "man smb.conf" and look for "The [homes] section". The [public] section might look something like this. This is a configuration I use for my "public" share. [public] comment = Some public data path = /data/public read only = yes guest ok = yes write list = me wife inherit owner = yes create mask = 664 force create mode = 664 # change to match your need force directory mode = 775 # change to match your need # force group = trusted # maybe you want this browseable = yes -- bye, Adalbert Why bother building any more nuclear warheads until we use the ones we have? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list