Aloowing access to specific samba users
Bob Latham
bob.latham at castlehigh.plus.com
Thu May 8 07:31:23 UTC 2008
In article <48220162.5040904 at tandem.f9.co.uk>,
Mike Evans <mike at tandem.f9.co.uk> wrote:
> Bob Latham wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've got a bit stuck with Samba shares but I'll bet that's a common
> > problem. In System=>Administration=>Samba on the Access tab there
> > appears to be the option to "only allow access to specific users".
> >
> > Is there an obvious reason why I can't seem to add a user at this
> > point?
> Bob:
> Yes - I hit this too. With Samba you have to create Samba Users. These
> may be the same as your linux users - but not necessarily so. If you
> are using that System/Admin/Samba GUI there is a separate bit under the
> preferences tab for doing that. Once you have created them you can
> check them in the "allow access to..." bit.
Thanks Mike,
Given that a try and yes I can now add that user. Thanks.
A lot I don't understand though like why the Unix user name has to be
chosen from a pre set list of seemingly quite odd names that you can't add
to.
Anyway, I have added the user to the share but of course windows still
refuses to have anything to do with it. I'm guessing but windows doesn't
ask for a user name and password as I would expect (error: The account is
not authorized to log in from this station) so I think that linux is using
the password the PC user is logged on to the PC with which is not what I
want at all. How do you make it ask for a user name and password? Bah.
Exasperation!
I've only being trying just over a week to share a folder with a user name
and password so that any windows user that knows the password can access
the share. A 30 second job on W98 its like climbing Everest on Linux.
Thanks again Mike, sorry if my frustration is showing too much.
Cheers,
Bob.
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list