On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 12:47 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: > on 3-26-2008 12:15 PM Anne Wilson spake the following: > > 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 > >>> Everything 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 > > > It is possible, because I am doing it. I have share=user and have home > directories viewable by the user and the admin (me). I have various > departmental shares that each department can access and no one else (but the > admin -- again me). Even shares that aren't browsable, so no one even knows > they are there if not given access. > And I have several public shares, some read-write, some read only with install > files and such. USers that try to access a share they have no permission to > get the logon box, but it will never actually auth because their rights don't > allow it. > Want to kindly post you Samba Version and config file please??? > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- ~/john OpenPGP Sig:BA91F079