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

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 26 March 2008 19:40:04 Les Mikesell wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > 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.
>
> If they are logged into a windows domain, they will send the domain
> credentials, like it or not - and you really want the windows login to
> match the linux name for home directories to work.  If you set
> security = server
> and
> password server = your_domain_controller
> (which I think needs to be resolvable in dns after adding your search
> domains)
> everything should just be transparent.

This doesn't really come into it.  99% of the time there are only linux boxes 
on the LAN.  Samba is necessary for the odd times when a family windows 
laptop makes a temporary connection.  There's certainly nothing like a 
windows domain to consider.

Anne
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