[clug] Samba help

[Mike J]

This isn't really a fix more of a workaround.....but.

Can't u just make a user that doesn't have write access to the share, use a 
login script (or however ur doing it) to connect to the share with those 
credentials behind the scenes.
Then create a user with write access and let them know user/pass or make a 
different login script passing those details?

Just a thought....make not be what ur after though.

cheers

michael.




>From: Chris Smart <chris at kororaa.org>
>To: linux at lists.samba.org
>Subject: [clug] Samba help
>Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:15:09 +0000
>
>Greetings all,
>
>Can someone help me a little with samba? I have a samba server
>configured for a local network, which needs to serve a share for a
>network of 100 or so Windows pcs.
>
>Although there is an active directory server I don't want to use
>authentication for this server, I want everyone to be able to connect as
>a guest with read only permissions.
>
>However, I want ONE particular user on the network to be able to write
>to the share.
>
>If I have the security options off or manually set to 'user' then this
>person can connect and write to the share perfectly. However, all other
>users are prompted with a username and password. Makes sense.
>
>So I set security to 'share' which enables all users to connect without
>a password, however now the user I want to be able to write to the share
>can't.
>
>My guess is that samba just forgets about auth and connects everyone as
>guest (?) but I want this user to be authenticated and allowed to write
>to the share.
>
>So perhaps I want something like: first try to authenticate the user, if
>not, then connect with guest. This way he should be authenticated and
>the share gives him write access, but all others are not authenticated
>and therefore connect as guest, for which the share denies write access.
>
>I hope that makes sense.. can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>
>Box is running Etch. I've been fiddling with the smb.conf but here it is
>in its latest state:
>
>;start
>[global]
>    workgroup = mshome.local
>    server string = %h server
>    dns proxy = no
>    log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>    max log size = 1000
>    syslog = 0
>    panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
>    security = share
>    encrypt passwords = true
>    passdb backend = tdbsam
>    obey pam restrictions = yes
>    guest account = nobody
>    invalid users = root
>    passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
>    socket options = TCP_NODELAY
>
>[graphics]
>    comment = Graphics
>    guest ok = yes
>    browseable = yes
>    path = /data/samba/graphics
>    writable = no
>    create mask = 0775
>    directory mask = 0775
>    write list = chrissmart
>    force group = chrissmart
>    public = yes
>;end
>
>Muchas gracias!
>Chris
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