[CentOS] Re: new CentOS5.1, samba help requested

[Ray Leventhal]

Scott Silva wrote:
> on 3-26-2008 6:55 AM Ray Leventhal spake the following:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm fighting with samba on a new CentOS 5.1 install.
>>
>> The goal here is to have unix/linux usernames/passwords used for the 
>> samba shares (which i'll setup using webmin, as I find it easy that 
>> way).  At present, the home share and one for the company's public 
>> share are in place.
>>
>> I can see the server, browsing from WinXP to \\172.16.0.106, but 
>> permissions seem amiss.  I should be able to read/write to a given 
>> share but it seems to be ro.
>>
>> Any pointers or advice would be greatly appreciated.
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>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> -Ray
> If you are going to use smb passwords anyway, why set security to "share?
> You should set security to "user" and make sure you keep unix users 
> and samba users synced.  For public shares you can set a shared user 
> and group, and make shared directories keep those perms.
Thank you, Scott.  I'd actually done that a little while ago but hadn't 
returned to the list since then.  Your point is well taken and also well 
documented (at least when I got to that part :)

Kind regards,
-Ray