more samba woes

[Adam Voigt]

I seem to remember someone on a different list mentioning it worked for
him when he set the path, like:

path = /home/%u

Or something like that, and the %u was supposed to automatically replace
with the users username.



On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 13:46, Ryan Duff wrote:
> I've gone through and used terminal to add a user...
> 
> smbpasswd -a ryan
> (entered password)
> smbpasswd -e ryan
> 
> this is what the share looks like in my samba.conf file
> 
> [music]
> 	valid user = ryan
> 	path = /mnt/music
> 	create mode = 0777
> 	directory mode = 777
> 	browseable = yes
> 	comment = music
> 	writeable = yes
> 
> encrypt passwords is set to yes and security is set to share
> 
> there is also a homes share
> 
> [homes]
> 	comment = Home Directories
> 	browseable = yes
> 	writeable = yes
> 
> The shares show up in network neighborhood but when I click on them it 
> tells me I don't have permission to access the share. My windows user and 
> password match my linux user/pass and samba user/pass. Any more 
> suggestions. I tried using webmin to set it up and that didn't help any. 
> I'm going to try and install swat after work tonight and see if that'll 
> help me get things straight. I think I used swat on drake before and got 
> things setup through that. If anybody has any suggestions as to what may 
> still be causing this problem please speak up.
> 
> Also, I don't have the firewall service turned on. For a brief moment it 
> did show my home directory and the files in it and I know I clicked no to 
> set up the firewall when I installed FC1. One more thing, I did remember to 
> restart samba after I made the changes and still nothign. "service smb 
> restart"
> 
> Thanks for the help
> Ryan Duff
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Adam Voigt
adam at kotisprop.com