We have 4 directories. Call them directory "a, b, c, and d".
We also have 4 groups. Lets call them "admin, user, exec, db."
We would want "amdin" group full control over all directories.
Next we want group "user" to have read only rights to a & b. No rights to c & d.
Group "exec" needs read only rights to c & d but read & write/modify priviledges to a & b.
And the "db" group needs write/modify priviledges to all directories but not full control.
All of this can be accomplished using Samba-3 with POSIX ACL support and both a Linux kernel/filesystem that support POSIX ACLS (right now that appears to be only ext3 and XFS). If you set up Samba that way, the security permissions can be managed from a Windows client just as if it was a Windows server and the user really can't tell much difference.
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