First, try taking off the public directive. That might get you a password prompt.
Second, to only let a certain user write to this share, read: man smb.conf :/ write list Joel > The 'scanfiles' share I want to be username & password protected and be > writable only by username 'oracle' ! > The 'sap' share I want to be public and read only by anyone ! > > [scanfiles] > comment = Directory for Scanned Images > path = /data_archive/repository > writable = yes > public = yes -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
