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!