kstan wrote:
Hi Samba team,
I feel user will feel more confortable when they can mount folder (via
mount.cifs or mount.smbfs) under particular shared folder.
Example:
I have a share folder call department, all department's folder arrange
inside
so I have a share folder call \\server\department
<snip>
It is much more better if we can simplied the share via this command:
mount -t cifs -o (with necessary
option) //server/department/purchasing
/home/purchasinguser/Desktop/mydepartmentdata
While this should be possible to implement (I'm not a programmer so I
won't guarantee it), it looks kind of ugly to me. You wouldn't expect to
be able to mount some directory inside an iso9660 or ntfs filesystem,
why should cifs be different?
Surely if you want people to be limited to just subdirectories of a
share, you should be sharing those subdirectories instead of the parent
(which would probably make security easier to manage as well). If you
just want to shorten the path so people can get to it quickly, well
that's what symlinks are for.
(I have removed samba-technical from this reply as this particular
message isn't terribly technical)
*Michael Heydon - IT Administrator *
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