SAMBA configuration - Machine name SOVED (?)

[Kam Leo]

On 3/16/06, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
>
> I made another change...
>
> I changed the privileges on /tmp to be based on SHARE rather
> than USER, and I successfully connected to /tmp.
>
> JMCCARTY at AMD586 Q:\NET> net use * \\presario\tmp
> E: connected to \\PRESARIO\TMP.
>
> HUZZAH!
>
> Thanks all for the help. I guess that perhaps I can't use
> user level control. I opened up /tmp for all users, I'll
> try restricting it, and see whether passwords work.
>
> I hand edited /etc/samba/smb.conf to make the machine name
> be PRESARIO-1, and was able to connect successfully, so
> apparently the docu I read about 8 characters for MSDOS
> MSCLIENT isn't correct, or I misremembered it.
>
> Ok, I set /tmp to be restricted to jmccarty, and used
>
> JMCCARTY at AMD586 Q:\NET> net use * \\presario-1\tmp ?
>
> and got a prompt for password, which when I entered it
> allowed me in.
>
> So it seems to work so far.
>
> Now to find out how to make the MSDOS machine a server rather
> than a client, and then I can make backups using the CDROM
> drive on my Linux machine!
>
> Thanks all for your help. I appreciate each reply, the expertise,
> and the time contributed.
>
> Special thanks go to William Hooper, Michael H. Warfield, and
> Craig White, each of whom contributed key pieces of information.
>
> Now all I gotta do is document what I did, so I can do it again
> if I need to...
>
> Mike
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