[NTLUG:Discuss] Samba, ACL - permissions

[Jerome Haltom]

> Beyond basic grouping of organizational units like departments or teams I 
> wouldn't try using groups.
> 
> For those kinds of numbers you'll want to use a formal file management 
> (checkout/checkin) system to insure that changes are not lost from 
> concurrent updates.

This sounds completely off-base. I don't understand why you would want
to use a source control system for a simple large file share. NFS was
designed for this stuff, as was CIFS on Windows. It is the reason ACLs
and group membership exist.

It's also sounds completely non-orthogonal. How would a source control
system deal with group membership and directory permissions?

Unless the original post is talking about controlling access to source
code. In which case I missed that.