Howdy list members, I recently merged our home firewall/router and fileserver into one computer using mandrake 9.0 (with latest updates). Because I am not sure if I should use a lower level of msec, I set it to 4 because of the recommendations given during the install stating that was level to choose for a server.
Now we do not have any thing secret or worth hacking into ....and just to be safe we are not hiding any plans for weapons of mass destruction on it either in case GWB is a member here (like yeah right!) so is it really worth while keeping it on msec level 4? BTW, we are on a cable connection here 24/7/365 and I am using Firestarter for the firewall which nmap'ing from the outside shows it is doing it's job. The problem I am having now, is that samba is installed and is allowing users into their home directories and allows other M$ clients to see the other shared folders - just not any of the files in those folders. The shared files/folders are located in /mnt/shared which shouldn't be a problem right? The samba log for "moms" computer shows; [2003/01/21 20:30:51, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(599) moms (192.168.1.252) Can't change directory to /mnt/shared/southpark (Permission denied) Before merging the two servers together, I had samba configured with just individual users...since this problem has arised, I have created a smbusers group and added all users to that section in /etc/group and changed ownership of all shares except homes to smbusers....still no go Just a few mins ago, I found (serious newbie here!) a file; /etc/security/fileshare.conf which has one line in it which reads; RESTRICT=yes Does anybody know if having msec level 4 interfers with file sharing with samba? If so, is it possible to change the above mentioned file to read RESTRICT=no and also be able to keep msec level 4? Or should I downgrade to level 3? Or should I just give up and go out and empty my wallet for uncle Billy and go back to M$? Smacking me upside the head and flaming welcomed here to get my senses back! BTW, with the old setup when the fileserver was its own entity, filesharing worked like a charm and I ended up reusing all the old smb conf files...modified for the new network setup...apparently not enough yet though. If I need to I can post any thing to help with this...but I believe it to be a file owner/permission problems...of which I have tried to fix via opening up ports 137, 138 and 139 on the firewall (no good) changed owner ship to smbusers (no go) and even set all shares read/write/execute (no go) TIA for any suggestions or advise Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org
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