On Fri, 06 May 2005 Dinesh Joshi wrote :
>> From: "Richard Chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>>Everytime I have to manually map it thru Net Neighbourhood or check the
>>option of Auto Mapping so that >it is available in the next login. It helps,
>>but I want to control which user can access which share. The >share available
>>to the user shall appear mapped whenever he/she logs in.
>
>Ok, heres what you need to do. You need to create a user account on you Linux
>OS for each user on the windoze PC. Then, you need to create a samba account
>for each username (smbpasswd). Once you do that, then you will be able to make
>a share selectively available to users. For example:
I might suggest a means of automating this stuff by the following command at
one go
# cat /etc/passwd | /usr/bin/mksmbpasswd.sh > /etc/samba/smbpasswd
where mksmbpasswd.sh is a script to allocate each Linux user a samba password.
rgds
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