Samba Question -- Users cannot accesshome directories-- FOLLOWUP
Tim Holmes
tholmes at mcaschool.net
Thu Feb 24 12:00:25 UTC 2005
>
> >
> > [Tim Holmes wrote]
> >
> > Paul:
> >
> > Here is the output of the command
> >
> > smbstatus
> > WARNING: The "only user" option is deprecated
> >
> > Samba version 3.0.10-1.fc2
> > PID Username Group Machine
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 7964 MCASCHOOL\tholmes MCASCHOOL\Domain Users 192.168.0.133
> > (192.168.0.133)
> >
> > Service pid machine Connected at
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> > tholmes 7964 192.168.0.133 Thu Feb 24 06:42:05 2005
> >
> > No locked files
> >
> >
> > That was run from the root prompt via a vnc connection to my samba
box
> > -- If you need me to do it a different way, please let me know
>
> The samba server has authenticated you as user "MCASCHOOL\tholmes".
This
> is different from the username "tholmes", so by default it will not be
> able to write to the home directory of user "tholmes".
>
> One way to work around this is to use a username map
> (/etc/samba/smbusers) containing lines like this:
>
> tholmes = MCASCHOOL\tholmes
>
> This would handle the authentication for MCASCHOOL\tholmes but then
use
> the account tholmes instead of creating a new one for
MCASCHOOL\tholmes.
>
> You'd need to do that for all users that have a home directory on your
> server that you want them to be able to access. There's almost
certainly
> a much better way of doing it (e.g. by auto-creating home directories
> for users such as MCASCHOOL\tholmes when they connect), but I don't
know
> what it is.
>
> Paul.
[Tim Holmes wrote]
Paul -- Thank you so much for your help -- Im going to try this now, but
I wanted to say thanks -- I would have sent to you directly, but your
address appears to be hidden as a function of the list -- if this would
be better/easier taken off list, please feel free to contact me via the
following:
E-mail -- tholmes at mcaschool.net
AOL IM -- w8tahham
YAHOO IM - w8tah
Thanks -- I'll let you know what happens
TIM
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