##### Server # Create Linux users useradd alice useradd bob # Create a directory to be shared; set ro permissions for alice using # file mode bits and rw permissions for bob using file acls mkdir /home/smbshare chown alice:alice /home/smbshare chmod 0500 /home/smbshare setfacl -m u:bob:rwx /home/smbshare setfacl -m m:rwx /home/smbshare # Create a file for testing purposes echo 'Hello world!' > /home/smbshare/test.txt # Add users to Samba database pdbedit -a -u alice pdbedit -a -u bob # Define share in smb.conf and restart the smb daemon vim /etc/samba/smb.conf comment = smbshare for alice(ro) and bob(rw) path = /home/smbshare browseable = yes writeable = yes valid users = alice bob systemctl reload smb # Set the SELinux permissions and open samba on firewall chcon -R -t samba_share_t /home/smbshare firewall-cmd --add-service=samba --permanent firewall-cmd --reload ##### Client # Create Linux users useradd alice useradd bob # Mount the remote Samba share mkdir /mnt/smbshare mount -t cifs -o username=alice,password=pass //192.168.1.112/smbshare /mnt/smbshare # Now test the permissions su - alice cd /mnt/smbshare cat test.txt # shows the contents of test.txt, as expected echo 'I am alice' > test2.txt # permission denied, as expected exit su - bob cd /mnt/smbshare # permission denied -- ???? NOT AS EXPECTED exit # I think it doesn't matter under which user to mount, but just to be sure # I tried to mount using bob's credentials umount /mnt/smbshare mount -t cifs -o username=bob,password=pass //192.168.1.112/smbshare /mnt/smbshare # After checking file permissions I got the same results as above: # alice have read-only permissions (as expected), bob have no access (NOT as expected)