On 6/7/2010 1:04 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Quoting Guy Rouillier ([email protected]):
I have spent many hours researching and trying many different
things, starting with this:
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7.  However, I still cannot
get Windows 7 Home Premium to connect to a Samba share using
user-based security.  XP works fine. I keep getting access denied.
Just this evening, I finally tried share level security, and both XP
and 7 can connect to that, so I'm using that for now.

BTW, this "valid users = %S" thing shoul dbe removed from your [global] section.
"valid users" is a share-level setting and %S is meant to be replace
by the share name.

IMHO, having it in the [global] section can't do anything good. At
best, it is just useless. At worse, this could be the cause of some
problems. Not yours, probably as it is overriden by the "valid users =
guy" setting in [data]....but I would suggest dropping settings that
are piled up in smb.conf *unless* you *know* that there is a need for
them.

Thank you *very* much. That was the problem. Windows 7 now works with security=user. Ugh. That entry was left over from the initial smb.conf that Samba provided upon install. I left it in case I wanted to do something with home directories later. Since I turned off user shares, I thought that entry would be harmless (though as you say, also useless.) Turns out I was wrong.

One unrelated (minor) oddity I stumbled across while trying to figure this out has to do with wildcard expansion. My clients are mainly Windows boxes. I get the following (N: is the Samba share on the Ubuntu box):

N:\util>dir ac*
 Volume in drive N is data
 Volume Serial Number is 0160-027E

 Directory of N:\util

04/26/2002  02:44 PM                66 authenejbcp.bat
05/28/2010  10:40 PM        46,899,200 ActivePython-2.6.5.12-win32-x86.msi
11/27/2009 04:49 AM 24,884,830 ActiveTcl8.6.0.0b2.291226-win32-ix86-thre
aded.exe
05/27/2010 03:26 PM 18,941,656 ActivePerl-5.10.1.1007-MSWin32-x86-291969
.msi
               4 File(s)     90,725,752 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  534,097,600,512 bytes free

I don't know why it thinks authenejbcp.bat begins with "ac". If I do "dir act*" it only shows the 3 Active* files; if I do "dir au*" it only shows me files beginning with au, including authenejbcp.bat above.

BTW, this is a fresh Ubuntu install - no previous version.

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Guy Rouillier
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