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

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 26 March 2008 19:46:21 Les Mikesell wrote:
> Akemi Yagi wrote:
> > 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 .
>
> But you probably don't have any shares marked as 'public' or 'guest OK'.
>   In user mode these don't mix well with normal authentication.

That could well be the problem.  I have some shares that I want to restrict by 
owner/group, and others that are public to the whole LAN.

Anne
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