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

John jses27 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 20:13:39 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 12:47 -0700, Scott Silva wrote:
> on 3-26-2008 12:15 PM Anne Wilson spake the following:
> > 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
> >>> Everything 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
> > 
> It is possible, because I am doing it. I have share=user and have home 
> directories viewable by the user and the admin (me). I have various 
> departmental shares that each department can access and no one else (but the 
> admin -- again me). Even shares that aren't browsable, so no one even knows 
> they are there if not given access.
> And I have several public shares, some read-write, some read only with install 
> files and such. USers that try to access a share they have no permission to 
> get the logon box, but it will never actually auth because their rights don't 
> allow it.
> 

Want to kindly post you Samba Version and config file please???
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