Jerry, Thanks for that - yes -once i removed the admin user and restarted samba it used the username in the force user field. many thanks
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald (Jerry) Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "info" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 5:31 AM Subject: Re: force user > On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, info wrote: > > > Yes I had the Admin useres set as well as the valid users. I had > > entered a number of usernames in both. Should this make a difference? > > By definition, a user in the "admin users" list will operate as root. > > > I deleted the entries in admin users and then created a new file but the > > owner was still set to root.!?!? > > Did you restart Samba after the config change? Or at least get it to > reread its configuration file and reboot the client machine? > > > > > cheers, jerry > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
