On Thu, August 23, 2007 3:15 pm, Zane Gilmore wrote: > Steve Holdoway wrote: > <snip> >> I think there's also a philosophical question here as well, especially >> with your example. My feeling is that samba = sharing = more than one >> person accessing the information = you should invest time into >> understanding exactly what you're doing because you're not the only >> person involved any more. >> >> So maybe it shouldn't just work, but the exercise of getting it working >> gives you more of an understanding of what you're actually doing. >> >> Now I'm sure that won't be a popular view (: > > Spoken like a true sysadmin :-/ > and although what you say is mostly true, we still need to make it a more > straight-forward > process that of getting access to other machines on home networks. > > There must be a way of easily and securely providing that functionality to > people who are not > network engineers. >
Thats why its "right click|share" Security in this context is keeping it off the internet. The local users in your home will generally need write access to such shares. If they delete the whole contents, go to the backup. If you don't trust them, don't give access. But they will moan like hell that they can't delete the fuzzy blurred photo from the pics directory. Even if that means they also can't delete the good one. -- Nick Rout
