Each user that needs to access the server will need to be a linux user as well, with unix permissions to access the directory in question. It is best to use "user" security instead of "domain" with password synchronization between samba and unix enabled. Any users created in unix will be added to samba.
If this becomes an issue (too many users, two systems to maintain), you may want to consider mapping bad usernames to guest, setting the guest user up as a generic user in unix, then allowing guest access to the share. This pretty much opens the share up to everyone, something you may wisn to avoid. This is usually done when deploying Samba as a print server. It avoids administrative overhead. You can also use winbind to synchronize samba permissions with a NT domain. This is beyond me, someone else could step up to help you there. Another thing to consider - the samba user needs to have permissions to access the unix directory. Samba permissions and unix permissions are two distinct issues. You could share a directory in samba that nobody can read, let alone write to from Windows. The individual users need to have access, or better yet the group to which they belong. Conversely, if you map to guest, make certain the guest user has rights to the unix directory. You may want to download Webmin (www.webmin.com). It gives you a nice web-based interface to manage everything. Good luck, Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 6:03 AM Subject: [Samba] Samba authentication Hi, I'm trying to set up samba for the first time. I can already ping the linux machine from a windows machine by its NetBIOS name. But when I try to do \\linux (thats the machine name) it asks me for username and password Here goes my smb.conf file: [global] workgroup = NS netbios name = Linux server string = Samba Server hosts allow = 192.168.69. 127. interfaces = 192.168.69.110/24 log file = /var/log/log.%m max log size = 50 security = domain password server = * encrypt passwords = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY os level = 255 wins support = no dns support = no Do I have to create users locally, or say that specific users from the domain can access the server? I haven't created any share yet, might that be a problem too? Thanks in advance... Filipe Joel de ALmeida -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
