[K12OSN] View Multiple share points with Netatalk and vsFTP

[Jim Kronebusch]

Thanks Jim, that at least answers a third of my problem :-)  

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From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On
Behalf Of Jim Hays
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 1:30 PM
To: Support list for opensource software in schools.
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] View Multiple share points with Netatalk and vsFTP


I haven't accessed through ftp.  Access through the "Go" menu or Chooser

is the same as with a share from a Mac server or a Windows server 
running services for Macintosh.

I don't have FTP enabled on my server.



Jim Kronebusch wrote:

>When you make multiple shared folders do you see them as share points 
>to mount when accessing through the chooser or Go menu?  Have you ever 
>accessed this via FTP to see if it shows up the same?
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On 
>Behalf Of Jim Hays
>Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 1:14 PM
>To: Support list for opensource software in schools.
>Subject: Re: [K12OSN] View Multiple share points with Netatalk and 
>vsFTP
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>We have students with Macs accessing folders on K12LTSP.  As far as the
>client is concerned, they don't even know that this is not on a Mac or 
>Windows server. 
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>You can make multiple shared folders as you indicate,  I have not tried
>to put the shortcut in but it should work.
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>Jim Kronebusch wrote:
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>>I will be migrating our main fileserver to linux this summer.  Right 
>>now if a user logs in via appletalk they get to choose from multiple 
>>share points.  Is this possible with netatalk?  Or is it possible to 
>>have aliases within the users home directory to take them to other 
>>home directories as long as they have proper permissions to the other 
>>folders via group privileges?  Can this same setup also be accessed 
>>via FTP as well?
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>>Here is a scenario if it helps:
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>>User X logs in and is taken to their /home/usrXfolder/
>>Now user X wants to drop files into a teacher Y's drop folder located 
>>in /home/teacherYfolder/1sthourdrop/
>> 
>>Can this user either:
>>A. See 2 share points on login /usrXfolder/ and /1sthourdrop/ or B.
>>Dump directly into their /usrXfolder/ and see an alias to 
>>/1sthourdrop/
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>>I currently have vsFTP set with chroot_local_user=yes option to lock 
>>into the users /home/user directory to keep them from wandering.
>>Whatever solution I go with I want to be sure that if a user logs in 
>>from home via FTP on a Windows based system they can traverse 
>>directories in the same fashion.
>> 
>>Also the majority of our computers here are Macintosh, and we are 
>>adding more Windows machines, when we get to adding Linux machines 
>>they will be thin clients.  So I guess Samba will need to reflect this
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>>configuration as well.
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>>I hope this makes some sort of sense to everyone.  And please 
>>straighten me out if there is a better way to do this.  I want to 
>>avoid giving users more than one username and password.  Also 
>>depending on what activities or courses a student is involved in, this
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>>won't be limited to two folders, there may be half a dozen in some
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>cases.
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>>Thanks
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