On occasion, subgroups of a family need a share that is fully accessible by all members of the group. For example, parents working in a home office environment may need a place where they can share, distribute, or collaboratively work on documents. Here's how it's done.
Create the Directory and User Group
As with any group activity, the first step is to get organized.
1.
Create a new Linux group named parents:
[root@bigboy tmp]# /usr/sbin/groupadd parents
2.
Create a new directory for the group's files. If one user is designated as the leader, you might want to change the chown statement to make that person owner:
Add the group members to the new group. For instance, the command to add a user named father to the group is
[root@bigboy tmp]# /usr/sbin/usermod -G parents father
All your members are in the group; now they need to share.
Configure the Share in SWAT
Next, you need to create the share in Samba using SWAT.
1.
Click on the Shares button, then enter the name of the share you want to create, such as only-parents.
2.
Click on the Create Share button. Make sure the path maps to /home/parent-files, and make the valid users be @parents, where parents is the name of the Linux user group.
3.
Click on the Commit Changes button to create a new /etc/samba/smb.conf file.
4.
Click on the Status tab at the top of the screen and restart smbd and nmbd to restart Samba.
Your /etc/samba/smb.conf file should have an entry like this at the end
