Samba - only allow users access their folder (and custom dirs)

Currently, users in our samba directory can access any folders, including each others so I've found that by including this line in the config file valid users = %S uncommented, users can only access their home directories.

Now the only problem is that there's a folder that needs to be accesible for everyone and I can't seem to have it working.

Does anyone happen to know how to do it?

Thanks ahaed.

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Electron apps

Hi,
Maybe it's a really easy question to answer, but i'm going to post it anyway.
We have many electron apps like Discord, which are based on online version of themself.
We have Visual Studio Code based on Electron, and some smart guy made it work in web browser.
So, theoretically, there should be no problem with porting webapps to electron.


Then why Google can't or don't want to port their office suite?
I understand why Microsoft is not doing it, but Google could get more users of their product, by releasing a desktop app that has the same functionality. Even porting paid GSuite shouldn't be a problem, just make user log in before accessing the app.

Maybe there is a possibility for community to port desktop version of G suite?


Making such a move could possibly gain google more users, make their app way more comfortable to use and finally make a lot of people change their OS from windows, because many of them are using windows just to have Office Suite.

And sorry for possible misinterpretations, i'm not a programmer.

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Can i run Servers on Linux from an Android Phone?



Dont know much about Linux but i just followed a guide and i can now run Linux (Kali) from my Mobilephone. Basically you run an app Called LinuxDeploy and then vncviewer and connect to Localhost and you know got a Linux Distro running from your phone.

https://www.androidauthority.com/install-ubuntu-on-your-android-smartphone-765408/

Dont know much more than that, and my question is, can i install and run Servers from there like a Plex Server, a VPN Server etc, that other devices can connect to on my Home Network

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GNOME 40 Will Now Handle XWayland On-Demand By Default
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1673

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I legit HATE the auto-moderation here!

Like how goddamn long does the post have to be? Four and a half lines is considered “short” somehow? What IS the minimum length? Why is trying to be concise punished? Who thought that was a great idea?
Is there anyway around this WITHOUT having to pad the stupid post out for no other reason than to try and avoid a nebulous “minimum”?
This sort of crap is what irritates me with Reddit lol.

“you are doing that too much. try again in 11 minutes”
YES YOU DUMB Fk BECAUSE YOUR BRAINLESS BOT JUST REMOVED MY LAST POST!!!
Ughhhhhhhhh!!!

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Great new features coming to rpm-ostree
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/MQWBKRFCYH2GB3CW5CG722RGQAEPHHAN/

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The Linux Foundation launches 7-part open source management training program
https://planetstoryline.com/the-linux-foundation-launches-7-part-open-source-management-training-program/

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Hardware video acceleration now available in google chrome 88

In builds of chromium/chrome 88 or later hardware video acceleration is available (not enabled) by default. One toggle is currently needed: go to chrome://flags and enable Hardware-accerlated video decode and restart. Note this currently only works on x11, and I’ve only tested on intel (amd should work too, nvidia I’m not sure).

You can verify vaapi video decoding on intel by installing intel-gpu-tools (available on most distros), and then running sudo intel_gpu_top.

While this was available for a few years now in many distros chromium builds, only as of v88 it is available in google chrome itself, and by extension every build of chromium that sticks to defaults.

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Introduction to eBPF
https://oswalt.dev/2021/01/introduction-to-ebpf/

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Container networking is simple
https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/container-networking-is-simple/

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OpenWrt 19.07.6 - Service Release
https://openwrt.org/releases/19.07/notes-19.07.6

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Cache Poisoning and Remote Code Execution in Popular DNS Forwarder dnsmasq
https://www.jsof-tech.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/DNSpooq_Technical-Whitepaper.pdf

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User power, not power users: htop and its design philosophy
https://hisham.hm/2020/12/18/user-power-not-power-users-htop-and-its-design-philosophy/

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New Year, new Red Hat Enterprise Linux programs: Easier ways to access RHEL
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel

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Ubuntu boot on Apple M1 Macs achieved; port to be released later today
https://twitter.com/cmwdotme/status/1351838924621099008?s=21

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Anthony from Linus Tech Tips (not that Linus) has an unboxing and first impressions of the Librem 5 from Purism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH8DRyKUZDg?

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Linux Terminal Chess With Source
https://iibbrr.itch.io/linux-windows-terminal-chess-with-source

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RHEL is now Free* for up to 16 production servers
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/centos-is-gone-but-rhel-is-now-free-for-up-to-16-production-servers/

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Rocky Linux: January 2021 Community Update
https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/community-update-january-2021

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Issues with language localization with Linux UPDATE

A few days ago, I posted a rant about how difficult it is for non-Latin Language users to use Linux based operating systems.

In that post, I declared Ubuntu for having the best out of the box experience with Asian input thanks to Gnome's well-integrated IME support.

Well, today I am happy to say that the Linux Mint Cinnamon edition has the easiest to use Asian input method to date.

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https://preview.redd.it/ogceagv29ic61.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=873efc6f563f64a4dff3c0ffccf1a1ce088755fd

As you can see from the screen shot above, not only does Asian input work right after a reboot, the language settings page contains easy to follow step by step instructions on how to enable the majority of languages direction from the GUI.

I'm glad taht The Mint team has created an easy to use GUI for localization and this further cements Linux Mint as a truly beginner friendly distro.

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Package managers all the way down [LWN.net]
https://lwn.net/Articles/712318/

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