[CentOS] Re: new CentOS5.1, samba help requested
Ray Leventhal
centos at swhi.net
Wed Mar 26 18:21:32 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Scott Silva wrote:
>>
>>> I'm fighting with samba on a new CentOS 5.1 install.
>>>
<big snip>
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> The problem is that all these shares are set as 'public' so you'll
> connect as a guest user - which I don't see defined - and unless the
> unix file system is writable by the guest you'll only have read access.
>
> With user level security you can't connect to different shares as
> different users, so if you remove the 'public' from the home section
> (as you probably should) and let people connect as themselves, they
> will have to also connect as themselves to the public shares.
>
That's the clearest explaination I've sen on that subject, Les. Thank
you very much!
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