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<DIV><SPAN class=125364717-06042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>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?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=125364717-06042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here is a scenario
if it helps:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=125364717-06042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>User X logs in and
is taken to their /home/usrXfolder/</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=125364717-06042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now user X wants to
drop files into a teacher Y's drop folder located in
/home/teacherYfolder/1sthourdrop/</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=125364717-06042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can this user
either:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=125364717-06042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>A. See 2 share
points on login /usrXfolder/ and /1sthourdrop/ or</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=125364717-06042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>B. Dump directly
into their /usrXfolder/ and see an alias to /1sthourdrop/</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=125364717-06042004><FONT face=Arial
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<DIV><SPAN class=125364717-06042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>I currently have
vsFTP <FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>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.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=125364717-06042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>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 configuration as well.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=125364717-06042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>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 won't be limited to two folders, there may be half a dozen in
some cases.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=125364717-06042004><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Thanks</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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