On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, I spent much of yesterday puzzled by a samba setup that just won't > do what I expect. This is a new installation of Hardy using the alternate > installation to set up raid1, though the Home partition is that from a prior > SuSE 10.1 installation. This is not the same as the thread I started > earlier in the week however some of the symptoms are similar, and I now > realise that issues I have with my home Hardy installation is also similar. > My googling shows plenty of people saying they're having problems, lots of > responses of "I don't have any problem with mine" or any suggestions to > solve are covered by what I have done already, as follows: > > 1. Create a few users, add them to a group or 2. > 2. sudo smbpasswd -a <user> > 3. Via konqueror right clicking a folder to share > Properties > Share, and > follow your nose from there. This is far from being rocket science. (I've > also used webmin to try to configure the share but without success at home) > 4. Use of chown and chmod (sometimes with -R) to apply various permissions > to sub-folders. > > > Connecting from a couple of XP machines it now gets interesting. From one, > there is a refusal to authenticate any user created above when trying to > access the share - I get "incorrect password or unknown username for > \\machine\share". The only XP user that can connect is my own user - the > same username as the first kubuntu user created who gets to use their > password for sudo. > > From another, I can connect to the share despite that user NOT existing on > the linux box! Further, I could browse to sub-folders, open files, where > permissions are such that the connecting user is neither the linux/samba > user or in the group that owns the folder and permissions are 0700. > I'd be very interested in any opinions on what might be causing me to go > insane and consider a career change. Is there anything in that old Home > folder that might create problems - I would have thought that all the action > is in "/" and that, as I mentioned, is fresh. > > Thanks for any pointers, to which I will try to follow up on today but it > may end up having to be next week. > Roger >
Is the user who wants to share in the sambashare group on the hardy machine?
