In order for a Windows client to gain access to a share, it needs to
authenticate with a Windows user id. This id should map, either directly
or through group membership, to something your Linux/Unix box can
handle. Samba is able to handle the share mounting because it doesn't
need to access the Linux/Unix file system. However, once you start
getting at the files, those permissions are handled by Linux/Unix.
Therefore you need Linux/Unix access to the files. This means the id
that Windows is using has to map to a Linux/Unix account (or an
appropriate group mapping needs to exist).
Try installing / activating SWAT on your server. This makes
administration easy. Next, create your two users in SWAT and activate
them. I believe SWAT is smart enough to match the user names to the
existing Linux/Unix user names. Otherwise you may have to use some of
the command-line programs to do the mapping.
Donald W Watson wrote:
Gary, thanks for the reply. However, I still don't understand.
On the linux server, user1 is user 500 and user2 is user 501. There
are no corresponding user id's on the linux client, and the client is
not a member of the domain, but writing to the share file works when
the share is mounted by user1.
On the windows client, there are no corresponding local users, but the
machine is a member of the samba domain; however, I still cannot write
to the share file when the connection is made by user1.
Sincerely, Don Watson
Linux Technology and Solutions; Beaverton, OR
503-578-4861/TL: 775-4861; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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05/04/2006 08:37 PM
Please respond to
gary
To
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Re: [Samba] Share Access
The Linux case is easy. You are using Linux /Unix user names. When you
attempt to connect from Windows however, you are using a Windows user
name. This needs to map to a Linux / Unix user name.
It's more common to use group privileges on shares with Windows, so
putting your Windows users in groups and mapping them to Linux / Unix
groups would also work.
Donald W Watson wrote:
>
>
>Could someone help me understand if what I'm seeing with share access is
>correct?
>
>On my samba domain I have two users (user1 and user2) and one share; the
>share has attribute "writelist = user1".
>
>On a linux machine I:
> mount the share with "mount -t cifs -o username=user1"
> successfully open a file in the share for writing with the perl
"open"
> function
> close the file
> umount the share
> mount the share with "mount -t cifs -o username=user2"
> unsuccessfully attempt to open a file in the share for writing
with the
> perl "open" function
> umount the share
>This is, I think, as expected.
>
>However, on Windows2003, I:
> connect the share as user1
> unsuccessfully attempt to open the file for writing with vim
>This seems inconsistent with the results on linux, and not what I
expected.
>
>Am I misinterpreting the expected results? Thanks for any responses.
>
>Sincerely, Don Watson
>Linux Technology and Solutions; Beaverton, OR
>503-578-4861/TL: 775-4861; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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