Re: [Samba] access to all home directories for all users

Thanks to Matthew and Sabine for their suggestions, which sadly are not
solving my problem :). After some more reading and learning I've come up
with another way which I'll describe below for those who are interested.

I skipped the idea of extensive read & write list parameters in the
smb.conf and now handle almost everything with standard unix
permissions, particularly by using the sgid bit on directories (which I
never used before -- shame on me). In addition to the [homes] service I
made a service called [users] which serves as a place for symlinks to
the desired home directories. By mounting this share, my user "tim" can
see the homes of joe, kate and himself, and can read (and write, if he
is in the group "kate" resp. "joe").

My smb.conf:

[homes]
valid users = @users
write list = @%g
read only = No
inherit acls = Yes
browseable = No
create mask = 0664
force create mode = 020
directory mask = 0775
force directory mode = 020

[users]
path = /home/server/userlinks
valid users = @users
read only = no
create mask = 0664
force create mode = 020
directory mask = 0775
force directory mode = 020

# ls -l /home | grep joe
drwxrwsr-x 4 joe joe 152 Feb 2 16:56 joe

# ls -l joe/
drwxrwsr-x 5 joe joe 176 Feb 2 21:26 .
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 424 Feb 2 21:26 ..
drwx------ 2 joe root 136 Feb 2 14:36 secret
drwxr-sr-x 2 root joe 48 Feb 2 21:26 test

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