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

Akemi Yagi amyagi at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 19:34:18 UTC 2008


On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Ray Leventhal <centos at swhi.net> wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
>  >
>  > 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
>  >
>
>  FWIW, Anne, I don't consider it a hijack at all, as my issues are
>  definitely being addressed here too :)
>
>  I am in exactly the same boat as you are indicating.  In 'share' mode,
>  all is visible, in 'user' mode I can't seem to authenticate at all.
>
>  -Ray

On your Windows box, set up a user and password that match *exactly*
what was entered for *samba* user/password.  I can browse and connect
to samba servers with security = user .

Akemi



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