Red Hat® Linux® 7 Unleashed

Sharing Files and Print Services

After configuring your defaults for the Samba server, you can create specific shared directories limited to certain groups of people or available to everyone. For example, say you want to make a directory available to only one user. To do so, you would create a new section and fill in the needed information. Typically, you'll need to specify the user, directory path, and configuration information to the SMB server, as shown here:

[jacksdir]
comment = Jack's remote source code directory
path = /usr/local/src
valid users = tackett
browseable = yes
public = no
writable = yes
create mode = 0700

This sample section creates a shared directory called jacksdir. It's best to keep share names to under nine characters ...