Samba: Could not get smbpasswd to work. Problem?
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Apr 5 17:15:46 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 10:09 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 09:30 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 09:20 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > Trying to get my Samba server running on FC5, but cannot seem
> > > to be able to get shares working right. I noticed that I had
> > > no entries in the /etc/samba/smbpasswd file so I tried to add
> > > my users via smbpasswd <user> and provided the passwords but
> > > smbpasswd failed to complete. Here is the results:
> > >
> > > [root at mysystem samba]# smbpasswd aUser
> > > New SMB password:
> > > Retype new SMB password:
> > > Failed to find entry for user aUser.
> > > Failed to modify password entry for user aUser
> > >
> > > I checked to make sure that this user had an account
> > > in the /etc/password file and yes, they do so I am not
> > > sure why smbpasswd is not accepting it.
> > >
> > > Anyone have problems with this?
> > ----
> > are you sure that samba would use /etc/samba/smbpasswd as backend?
>
> Apparently, when I used the -a option, the user entries are
> added to /etc/samba/smbpasswd. I checked. I now have my users
> added but now the next step is to get samba configuration right
> so that group-defined users have samba share access rights only.
>
> I am now fiddling with the shares. Trying to grant browser rights
> only to members of the samba group I created. But seems there is
> only a binary value allowed for the browseable: Yes or No.
>
> Any idea how to set a share as browseable but only for allowed users?
>
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if you read the man pages...browseable is only a browsing quality.
Whether it's visible or not in a Network browser window. It has no
relationship to whether a user or group has privileges to see the files
or folders inside...only the presence of the share itself.
Thus, browsing rights is only a binary on/off browseable yes/no.
There are write users/read users, etc. There are the underlying 'posix'
file/group ownership bits that have impact as well.
You really need to read the man pages or the 'howto' at
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs
Craig
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