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. 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/20080326/928f23e5/attachment-0005.sig>