oh and to get access to all users home directories, you need only a home
share like this:
[homes]
read only = No
browseable = No
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:36:14 +1200 (NZST)
Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
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Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
