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Title: Samba & ibays
Post by: Michael on March 10, 2003, 06:00:04 PM

This may be a silly question; but if I want to create a public share on my server, of documents that everyone can read, but only certain people can write to, am I correct in thinking that I can ...

1. Create an ibay, call if publicfiles
2. Set it to group = everyone, write = admin, read = group
3.  Login as admin, and put the documents on the share, into the files folder.
4. map a drive to a share on each users machine, for example P: to //myserver/publicfiles
5. And finally, all a user has to do is connect to the drive P: and browse it for files.

Is that it ? Or is there something I'm missing ?

Thanks for your time,
Michael

Title: Re: Samba & ibays
Post by: Bill Talcott on March 10, 2003, 11:05:58 PM

Yup, that's about it. Note that UNCs use backslashes, so it would be \myserver\publicfiles. Mapping drives is merely for convenience also. Users can access the files directly via \myserver\publicfiles as well.