Samba problem, can't connect as a different user
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Mar 23 18:01:02 UTC 2008
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 17:22 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> I am trying to connect to several shares on my Fedora 8 system as
> different users from a Windows XP system.
>
> I can't get the "Connect using a different user name" from XP to work
> at all. I can only ever connect as the user I'm logged on to the XP
> system as. I want to connect as a different user to one particular
> share so I don't have to open up the write permissions.
>
> Has anyone else used this and got it to work?
>
> When I try "Connect using a different user name" I enter a valid samba
> user and password but it always fails and asks for the user name and
> password again. Even if I enter the user name that I already am in
> the boxes it fails. Does the user name need some sort of domain
> prefix or something?
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samba by default uses
security = user
which by current Windows standards means that a workstation can connect
to this particular server with only 1 identity. Thus if you are already
connected to a share as DOMAIN|WORKGROUP\foo, you cannot connect to a
different share as DOMAIN|WORKGROUP\bar
the 'security = share' concept emulates the Windows 95/98 sharing
concept where each share connection can be a different user but that is
essentially obsolete and should be avoided if possible.
Craig
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