I'm coming back to this problem after giving it a rest for a while. I
find it hard to believe that no one sets up authentication with security
set to share. Is that really the case? Is share security deprecated and
untested or something? As no one was able to point out what I did wrong
in my config before, I decided to try setting this scenario up on a
completely different system which runs a different distro (same version
of samba afaik). I am having the same exact problem on this other
machine so it must be a config issue or samba just doesn't work this
way. This time I am testing it by trying to connect to it from a windows
xp and vista machine. Both machines keep re-prompting me for the userid
and password of the share over and over again after I type the correct
password. Why is it so impossible to have a simple username authenticate
to a share? At this point to have a little security, I have to make them
all guest access read only as nothing else works in this mode. I don't
mean to sound a little frustrated but I would have thought samba would
be a little more robust than that by now.
If it just isn't meant to work this way can someone help me out a little
and explain it? I have read through the docs and explanations of the
different options many times and can't find a reason it shouldn't work.
Thanks for any help, I don't know what else to do.
On 3/24/2011 1:00 PM, Xamindar wrote:
Hi, I have asked around in other forums but no one seems to know why
this doesn't work.
I have a backup server with samba on it and am trying to set it up to
only allow write access when a user authenticates but to allow reading
from anyone (guest). At this time I have guest disabled and a minimal
config set up as shown below to try to narrow down the problem.
I have added the user "xamindar" using smbpasswd on the server. I then
tried to mount the backup share from another machine with the following
command:
mount -t cifs //chiroru/backup /mnt/temp -o username=xamindar
But I keep getting the following response:
mount error(13): Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here? I am sure I have missed
something. It is possible to authenticate per share with share level
security is it not? I just can't get authentication to work no matter
what I have tried on this machine. With guest enabled it will just use
the guest account and that works fine.
Thanks for any help, I am pulling my hair out here.
***smb.conf***
[global]
server string = Backup and Multimedia server
security = SHARE
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/private/passdb.tdb
load printers = No
disable spoolss = Yes
show add printer wizard = No
write list = xamindar
printing = bsd
print command = lpr -r -P'%p' %s
lpq command = lpq -P'%p'
lprm command = lprm -P'%p' %j
map hidden = Yes
map system = Yes
[backup]
path = /mnt/user/backup
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