on 3-27-2008 3:07 PM John spake the following: > On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 14:56 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: > >>> Anne, I think your directories are not visable because you do not have >>> "browsable = yes" in the share setups section??? Try that? >> If you set browsable to yes, then EVERYBODIES home directories show up. >> That is not usually what you want. If you want to share everything, just make >> one share and put everything under it. >> > OK so when user mode is used your saying the directory is only viewable > by the current user logged in and all of them is Viewable by root? > Correct?? >> _______________________________________________ No. Since the admin user should already know who is on the system, you can do a \\servername\username and get into their shares. But that is another book of magic. Samba really has a different concept of root, and you have to map into the admin group in the samba world. I know the books are long, but you really need to go through the basic chapters and examples in the samba-3 by example book (on line and free) at http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/index.html Set up a test system and play with the configs. You can set up a virtual machine if you don't have extra stuff to play on. I still do it on my laptop sometimes (I have a fairly beefy laptop with 1.5 gigs of ram, so I can learn on my time). -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080327/2b9afe88/attachment-0004.sig>