Topic: creating user shares

[stocky]

I am trying to setup an SME 6 box for our local school. They use two user login's ADMIN & STUDENT. What they require is when the STUDENT login is used and a student access the server, a list of every students folders is visible and when the student attempts to access their folder they are asked for their user name and password. This is the system that the students are familiar with and they wish to retain it. How do I go about setting up a shared folder for each user name automatically? Under admin they have access to all folders, which the teachers require, and I have that working fine.

[stefan24]

Why don't you create a login for each student and create i-bays for shared data?
With the Lazy Admin Tools you can create masses of accounts via batch.

[stocky]

each student has their own folder that are not shared. They need to access their own folder but due to age of some kids, they dont want then to have to log in to computer, hence the single STUDENT login. They just need to be able to access THEIR INDIVIDUAL folder if required and enter username and PW at that time. Due to way network is setup they DONT want a domain. They had an el-cheapo NAS unit before but wanted the xtra speed/power/storage that SME could offer them

[stefan24]

each student has their own folder that are not shared. They need to access their own folder but due to age of some kids, they dont want then to have to log in to computer, hence the single STUDENT login. They just need to be able to access THEIR INDIVIDUAL folder if required and enter username and PW at that time.

Then use an account "student" for all of them (with password "student" and access only to the shared files) and additionally an account for each of the students with access to their personal files *and* the  shared files.

As an alternative you can play with .htaccess files to restrict access to files via web browser, but I don't think, that there is an ready-to-use contrib for that.

You can also patch the config files of Samba, but certainly not with the help of the web panel.

[stocky]

but that would require logging out of windows then loggin back in wouldn't it?

[stefan24]

Hi Stocky!

Sure!

But you can login your Windows (which version?) automatically. With that login name you can have access to the SME server without requiring a second login, if that login name is defined in the user section of the server-manager (with the same password).