On Wednesday 26 March 2008 18:23:32 Scott Silva wrote: > on 3-26-2008 10:32 AM John spake the following: > > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 10:16 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: > >> on 3-26-2008 6:55 AM Ray Leventhal spake the following: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> I'm fighting with samba on a new CentOS 5.1 install. > >>> > >>> The goal here is to have unix/linux usernames/passwords used for the > >>> samba shares (which i'll setup using webmin, as I find it easy that > >>> way). At present, the home share and one for the company's public > >>> share are in place. > >>> > >>> I can see the server, browsing from WinXP to \\172.16.0.106, but > >>> permissions seem amiss. I should be able to read/write to a given > >>> share but it seems to be ro. > >>> > >>> Any pointers or advice would be greatly appreciated. > >>> > >>> My simple smb.conf file is here: > >>> > >>> [global] > >>> netbios name = BACKUP > >>> socket options = TCP_NODELAY > >>> force directory mode = 777 > >>> unix password sync = yes > >>> workgroup = WORKGROUP > >>> force create mode = 777 > >>> os level = 20 > >>> encrypt passwords = yes > >>> security = share > >>> public = yes > >>> passdb backend = smbpasswd > >>> directory mode = 777 > >>> > >>> > >>> [homes] > >>> writeable = yes > >>> public = yes > >>> path = /home > >>> > >>> [company data] > >>> comment = company data > >>> writeable = yes > >>> create mode = 775 > >>> path = /home/share1 > >>> > >>> > >>> 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. > > > > Not to highjack the thread but on to samba security (user and share > > mode) as I am having a problem with it. Can you link me to some sort of > > samba docs that fully explain user and share mode. Also why user mode > > will not work with some forms of authentication. > > See Link: > > http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id= > >13357&forum=39 > > Not to complain about hijacking threads (which is very irritating), but I > think the link you have referenced is more a problem with the CIFS protocol > and not samba security. Samba share mode is more for shares that you want > everybody to have access to. Home directories, other shares, whatever you > put on there gets shared like the new girl in the commune. > > You can have user security, and still share all sorts of common directories > with no restrictions. > > The best docs are on the samba site, and although they are long and > technical in places, they are still very good. > > http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/toc.html > > http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ > > http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/ 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. Anne -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080326/2e4b6be5/attachment-0004.sig>