> Can someone please tell me how to restrict a users > access to one directory only? > > The situation is this, we have a /home/projects dir (also > a Samba and netatalk share)that all users currently > have access to either thru win98 or G4 macs. > > The problem I have to solve is creating a directory for a > new user in the projects folder called > '/home/projects/intern' which he is locked into and cannot > access in any way the rest of the /home/projects/ folder. > This folder 'intern' would remain writeable to all including > the new user. > > Since he will be connecting thru a mac and win box its > not as easy as just locking him into that dir as his home > dir as netatalk and samba dont really share the same > characteristics.
You can define what dirs are readable, writeable, etc by individual users. If /home/projects is "public", anyone can read/write to it, depending on your umask settings. Look at Samba's "write list" option here http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html#WRITELIST Regards Hall
