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

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 26 March 2008 18:59:41 Les Mikesell wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Like John, I fought long and hard to get user share working.  I read
> > Eeverything I could, including buying Samba3 by Example.  In the end I
> > admitted defeat and went back to shares.
>
> If you really want a public share with no authentication at all, share
> mode is probably the best approach.  If everyone that should have access
> is logged into a windows domain anyway, you can transparently accept
> this authentication and either keep their user id (as for a home
> directory share) or force it or their group id into something that gives
> common r/w access to a share.   You can also do the latter with explicit
> logins against uses in the smbpasswd file.
>
This is becoming a real hijack, which I didn't intend.  However, 

All users that are intended to be able to share have a user account on the 
samba server.  All users have samba passwords matching their login passwords, 
whether in windows or linux.  I couldn't even get their home directories to 
show using 'user' mode.

Anne
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080326/928f23e5/attachment.sig>