Samba Question -- Users cannot access home directories --FOLLOWUP
Tim Holmes
tholmes at mcaschool.net
Thu Feb 24 11:44:16 UTC 2005
> > > hey,
> > >
> > > just create the same users on linux machine which are on windows
> > > machine.No need to give the linux users any password.But u need to
> > > create the accounts of the windows users on linux.
> > >
> > > Like if there is an user on windows mark
> > > then you need to create an user mark on linux box.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Ankush
> > >
> > [Tim Holmes wrote]
> > The user tholmes does exist on the linux box
> >
> > Likewise the directory /home/MCASCHOOL/tholmes exists and is owned
by
> > tholmes
> >
> > However -- the user MCASCHOOL/tholmes does not appear to exist in
the
> > linux user list, nor can I create it. And if I try to chown
> > /home/MCASCHOOL/tholmes to MCASCHOOL/tholmes it chokes
> >
> > TIM
> [Tim Holmes wrote]
>
> After restarting samba, I can now browse to the tholmes folder, as
well
> as the two other shares (html and www), but I cannot write to any of
> the, nor can I FTP files into them -- I think we are making progress,
> and I suspect that at this point we have a permission problem that
needs
> to be resolved
>
> Thanks for all of your help
>
[Tim Holmes wrote]
An additional follow up
I have discovered that if I CHMOD the /home/MCASCHOOL/tholmes folder to
777 then I can write to it. I am hesitant to leave it this way, as it
strikes me as a titanic security hole
TIM
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