> For the benefit of those of us who are only too ready to admit all our > ignorance when it comes to Linux on the Mainframe, could someone explain > what ACLs (Access Control Lists are and how they relate to SAMBA? > > We had a set of NT servers lately that we wanted to migrate to Linux/390 > SAMBA for cost purposes. The cost savings would have been enormous. The NT > weenies did everything they could to shut us up and "prove" that we couldn't > do the job, desparately looking for anything and everything that NT could do > that SAMBA couldn't. They finally focused on the fact that individual NT > users can define, by userid, who has what privileges on each file in their > shared folder and SAMBA can't do that unless the administrator goes in and > does it for them. They managed to turn it into a show-stopper for us. > > Could ACLs do this for us? > > If so , where do we get it for 390 Linux? >
i have a supplementary question: I recently set up Samba as a PDC. I'm certainly no Windows guru - when it comes to Windows networking I hope it's like OS/2 until proven wrong. One thing I can do on NT is define classes of users - regular impotents, power users, administrators. All I could discover on Linux was how to create administrators, - everyone else is a regular impotent. Can one create different classes? if so, how? -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.
