Re: [TCLUG:22821] anyone here a samba master?

[Timothy Houck <thouck@thouck.com>]

Hiya.

Samba behind a firewall is no problem (with the firewall's cooperation).
You can announce your SMB presence easily to different subnets.
The permissions system is not finely grained enough to differentiate
"overwrite" and "delete" privileges, *I don't think*.  I've never tried
it, though, since they are (from a security standpoint) the same thing.
Although I haven't used Win2000, I believe it's just another version of
NT, and works the same from a security/networking standpoint.

Timothy

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Austad, Jay wrote:

> Right now, I have a linux ftp server that some of our journalists have to
> upload video to all day.  FTP is becoming a nightmare because no one knows
> how to use command line ftp and don't want to learn.  So we have 40
> different GUI ftp programs for windows floating around and I get calls all
> day saying how my ftp server sucks and they can never upload stuff to it.
> In 100% of the cases, it's always been the "chair to keyboard interface",
> not my ftp server.
> 
> So, my ftp server is behind a firewall from the people that want to upload
> to it, and the ftp ports are open.  What I want to do is set up samba, and
> have it tell our winblows 2000 domain controllers on the network that the
> users are on where it is.  That way, when they browse the network, they'll
> see it, they can click on it, and they can drop their files onto it.  
> 
> Has anyone made a samba box behind a firewall visible on a network on a
> lower security interface?  I need to also deny delete permission, but allow
> overwrite permissions.  All uploaded files will need to have default perms
> of 775.  Is there anyway to make samba authenticate against the win2000
> domain?
> 
> Jay
> 
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