Best way to edit users' home folders using samba

[WaitingForNehalem]

A teacher needs the ability to view and edit the students' home folders. The students can't see each other's home folder though.

[homes]
    comment = Home Directories
    browseable = no
    writable = yes
    valid users = %S

Here are my two solutions:

chmod -R 777 /home

[student profiles]
    comment = student profiles
    path = /home
    writeable = no
    write list = 100, david
    valid users = 100, david

OR

chmod -R 755 /home

[student profiles]
    comment = student profiles
    path = /home
    writeable = no
    valid users = 100, david
    admin users = 100, david

Both of these solutions aren't ideal though. I don't like have the /home directory so open and I also don't like the teacher being logged in as root since the files he creates will be owned by root. Would that affect the student's ability to edit the file?

Would putting "directory mask" override the unix permissions?

 

[Nothinman]

Maybe I'm missing something, but why would the second solution have files created by the teacher owned by root?

 

[WaitingForNehalem]

Because an admin user mapped to root. I talked to the teacher and he wants the files to be owned by an administrator anyways so never mind, the second solution is what I will be using.

You can read this: http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2002-June/045338.html