SAMBA digest 1648
Yanek Korff
yanek at CS.WM.EDU
Wed Apr 8 12:00:22 GMT 1998
>>"foobar." Win95 keeps sending over it's username as the person who logged
>>in to that computer, or as the computer's machine name... and samba uses
>>that. I'd rather if they just typed in "foobar" they'd be in foobar's
>>account. Can this be done?
>Establish a group foobar in /etc/group with all the users that shall be
allowed to access the share foobar.
> foobar::<nnn>:andy,bert,charly,...
>Establish a user foobar in /etc/passwd with GID of foobar.
>Then alter your smb.conf to read something like
>[foobar]
> path = /anywhere/foobar
> valid users = foobar, @foobar
> force user = foobar
> force group = foobar
> create mode = 771
So I'd still have to know in advance which users I want to allow (andy,
bert, charly...)? I think I tried force user at one point to try and
ignore the username that win95 sent over, but samba seemed to autheticate
based on their username anyway.
-Yanek.
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