on 2-23-2009 10:53 AM Noob Centos Admin spake the following: > Everytime I have to setup samba to handle Windows users, sometime > inadvertently goes wrong or doesn't work the way I expected, or takes > forever to setup, especially when there are many users and various > policies. So far, the easiest, sureest and quickest method appears to be > install WindowsXP into VMWare and use it to handle Windows sharing. > Needless to say, this strucks me as rather ironic and stupid. > > Thus could anybody please suggest a working frontend to samba that makes > it easy to add users, set their permissions and get something that works > like basic windows file sharing? > > So far I've tried the following which all don't quite work. > > 1. CentOS's samba configuration tool > - added users never show up on the share configuration so the only > shares it could create was for public access. > > 2. Webmin > - thinks it added the users, but again they never show up when checked > against the bundled CentOS tool and needless to say, the shares never > work too Webmin does work, as I use it all the time to add users. You have to make sure that the user module has the option "Create and update in other modules" set to yes. I think it defaults to no. > > 3. Samba SWAT > - Very confusing tool, selecting shares sometimes end up as another > share, and again, doesn't seem to work. > > > So I just need a very basic tool that will reliably allow me to do the > following > - specify user name, specify password, and maybe specify a group > - specify a share the user or group has read only or read/write access > - force new files/folders to take on group ID so that it behaves like a > normal windows share Learn to use a file editor and edit the configs yourself. That is the only way to have the best control. Once you have a working config, copy and modify it for the next share. > > Don't need print services or anything, it's just far easier to dump a > hardware print server into the network than to contemplate the > additional complexity of making something like CUPS work. > > Just need to make sure that the Windows users can browse to the folders, > get a prompt for their login and password where needed. > > Thanks! -- 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: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090305/ffaae291/attachment-0004.sig>