Subject: Re: Help for a newbie-Clarify
From: Ryan McBeth (ryan@mobiusnm.com)
Date: Thu Sep 21 2000 - 06:55:49 EDT
Colin,
Do you want some specific Macs to have these access
privileges or some specific users to have these privileges? The
solution will be different for each case?
Ryan
At 8:25 +0800 21/9/2000, Colin Murphy wrote:
>Hi all,
>there is some confusion as to what I was trying to do in my last (first)
>posting. Even I am confused. To make a short story long.
>
>I have a RedHat 6.2 box running
>Apache
>Samba
>Proftpd
>Netatalk
>
>The Box is a server for the transfering of files to and from this unit by
>departments who want files processed. Not all these departments are on the
>university network. It is a typical university setup. The Box has (say)
>two directories. One upload and one download. With
>read/write/create/delete set accordingly. Apache is used for transferring
>files through a web browser and is working. ProFTPD is used for anonamous
>upload/download to the corresponding directories and is working. Samba is
>configured so that ALL the PCs in the unit can upload/download to the
>corresponding directories and is working. Some PCs have the ability to
>read/write/delete from both directories, using the 'admin users =' in
>samba, and are working. This is so the production computers can access the
>files over the network. I want ALL Macintosh computers on the campus
>Appletalk network to have guest access to the Linux Box, BUT I want a
>couple of (production) Macs in the unit to have read/write/delete
>priveleges through netatalk. However if this is setup with the Linux
>priveleges than every Mac on the campus can read all the files on the Box.
>(so could all the other computers, I suspect). Not a good thing for
>security.
>
>I have had an old 486 with this working setup running without problem, but
>also without the extra Mac priveleges.
>So now ...... How do I set netatalk up so that some macs can have different
>priveleges than the rest? Is there something like the 'admin users ='
>setting in Netatalk? I do have flexibility with IP number as the unit has
>its own IP subnet.
>
>Thanks to all who have responded, in particular thanks to Steve Freitas for
>pointing out the solution to my Mac Chooser problem.
>
>Kind regards ...... Colin.
>
>
>
>
>
>Colin Murphy
>Manager. Photographic Unit
>The University of Western Australia
>Nedlands. 6907 Ph +61 (08) 9380 3056.
>http://cyclone.graphics.uwa.edu.au
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