Just a thought:

 

I like the various options for exporting disk and user shares.  My current setup is to export all user shares read-only with the exception of my admin account, and to export all disk shares as hidden read/write.  This allows me to access the media on my unRAID server from my HTPC through the guest (read-only) account and never have to worry about accidentally deleting files.  I changed my disk shares to hidden read/write to clean up what I see from the HTPC - this all works fine.

 

While I was making these configuration changes, something occurred to me: I will only ever want to access my disk shares from my admin account (the only account with full read/write privileges across the server).  Plus, while the 'export as hidden' option is nice, I would rather avoid having to type in 'disk1' each time.  Therefore, would it be possible to tie in the exportation method with a particular user account?

 

For example, I would like to have this configuration:

 

User: admin

User Shares: Export read/write

Disk Shares: Export read/write

 

User: guest

User Shares: Export read-only

Disk Shares: Do not export

Therefore, would it be possible to tie in the exportation method with a particular user account?

 

You mean visibility?

If that is so, I'm not sure samba can be made to do this.

You can lock down share management based on user.

There is the admin users and force user functionality. This would require user security.

 

You can make a share visible, browseable, etc, etc.

I do not think you can make it visible/browseable based on a user.

Check out the smb.conf file man page and see what you might find.

 

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html

 

Yes, I suppose I do mean visibility.  Thanks for the clarification.