Dear list, For a simple home-network i recently installed Debian Etch on an extra machine to act as server. It stores my mail, it acts as
webserver, firewall, dns-, dhcp- and database-server. All of these services are running like a charm. The only thing left is to get samba running. Well, it is running, but to get it running how i want it to is a different matter i suppose, for i am quite stuck here. First, let me explain what i want. On my network there are two users, "rolf" and "ingrid". I want both these users to have a personal share on the server as well as a shared directory. Samba version 3.0.24 is installed on the computer for this. I´ve added these two statements in my /etc/samba/smb.conf : [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no path=/home/%U/Documents writable = yes create mask = 0700 directory mask = 0700 [shared] comment = Shared Directories browseable = no path=/home/samba/Documents writable = yes create mask = 0770 directory mask = 0770 browseable = yes I added both users to the smb password database using the smbpasswd command. After booting my windows XP laptop and logging into the machine (local logon) with the same username-password combination as i am known on the server i can see the contents of \\Myservername. I see a share "rolf" and a share "shared". I can access the share "rolf" without a problem, and create and delete content on it. However, i cannot get into the "shared" share getting "access denied". The only way to get to the share is by doing a "chmod 777" on /home/samba . I dislike this idea very much. The filesystem-rights on this directory on the server are as follows: drwxrwx--- 3 root users 4096 2007-12-27 22:43 /home/samba As such all groupmembers of the group "users" can access the directory. They can however not access the "share", even though they are members of the correct group. While searching for information about this i am drowning in information about things like authentication, group membership and uid-to-sid-mapping. So much that i am losing overview. I therefore have the following questions (to begin with :-) ) 1. Should the above setup work and give the users "rolf" and "ingrid" to the "shared" share? 2. Is there anybody else, using the same configuration who is willing to explain how he/she did this? 3. Is there any documentation about setting the described scenario up? Like i said, I've searched all over the web, but i found it hard to find relative information. Some documentation i found seem to suggest that the setup I've described here should simply work. Other documentation describe setting up a similar environment, but want to make the server a domain controller, and the samba howto gives so much information that a can not determine what part of this information is relevant. Thanks in advance, Rolf Deenen -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
