Samba access to all users with write permission to home directory only

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Published on 2009-11-22T06:36:23Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 11:01 UTC
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The system is RHEL 5.3.

We have several users with home directories /export/home/. All users belong to the same group devel.

How do I configure smb.conf so that each user can browse directories of all other users but have write permission to their home directory only?

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