And now for something completely different... With my notebook running suse I am connected to a workgroup with xp and 2000 machines and am trying to configure samba server to allow access to shares from a windows machine. I have been beaten by this stuff in the past but will not give up this time around! I have had a look at swat previously but this doesn't seem to be available on the suse cds so for now thought I'd go with using the Samba Server utility in Yast and editing samba.conf.
I have set up a share of the fat32 partition and a home directory, but not quite getting the results I want. Firstly, I can only browse a share from the windows machine with "guest ok = yes", as soon as this is "no" the share isn't accessible with an "access denied" message. I want to be specifying users who can access that share. Secondly alll files are read-only, even though I have "read only = no" or "writeable = yes". The line "create mask = 777" is my attempt to fix that, unsuccessfully. Time to ask for some help :-) Here are a couple of sections from the samba.conf file: [global] workgroup = Workgroup printing = cups printcap name = cups printcap cache time = 750 cups options = raw printer admin = @ntadmin, root, administrator username map = /etc/samba/smbusers map to guest = Bad User logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile logon drive = P: security = user encrypt passwords = yes passdb backend = smbpasswd server string = Samba Server add machine script = domain master = false domain logons = no local master = no preferred master = auto ldap suffix = dc=example,dc=com [notebook-d] available = yes browseable = yes comment = Notebook's D Drive guest ok = yes path = /windows/E/ create mask = 777 printable = no writeable = yes Roger
