On Sunday 24 Oct 2010, jr wrote:
> > Any thought before I trash the whole thing and reinstall from scratch?
> > There is clearly something fundamentally wrong with user
> > configuration/permissions, but unless I can sort it out, using his
> > machine will be a pain.
>
> not having the faintest about the various *buntus, but there will be a
> 'smb.conf' somewhere, can you compare the one on your machine with
> that of your son's? also, you might want to see whether the samba
> users are set up correctly (pdbedit(8), smbpasswd(8)).
Yes I could and I could obviously use a completely different tool instead of
Samba or editing the samba.conf file. However, my real concern at the moment
is the permissions/login problems. As it stands there is no guarantee that he
will be able to carry out any simple admin tasks that might arise. Most of
them use kdesu, but some don't and it's those (and the fact that I'm unable to
create a login for myself) that worries me.
There is obviously something fundamentally broken with this installation and
I'd rather fix the root problem to avoid me having to kludge fixes now and for
evermore.
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