Samba Problem

[CH ENGINEERING CO.]

Hi! I am still having the following problem and hope someone can lay a helping hand.


"Les Mikesell" <les at attbi.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Oswald" <chengin at pd.jaring.my> wrote in message
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> > Hi!  I tried to set up a Samba server for LAN of size 10 Window clients.
> > After I set up the Samba as recommended: -
> >
> >     [home]
> >                path = \home\chee\tmp
> >                guest ok = Yes
>
> This shares a single specific directory and allows
> anyone to connect without authentication as
> the guest user.  This might be OK for a public
> shared directory.
>
> > (2) Adding the Samba users by entering
> >      useradd -m Peter
> >      passwd Peter
> >      cat /etc/passwd | /usr/bin/mksmapasswd.sh > /etc/samba/smbpasswd
> >      smbpasswd Peter
>
> This implies that you really don't want to connect using
> the guest account.
>
> > I thought my '\' convention was wrong, so I changed the path =
> > \home\chee\tmp to path = /home/chee/tmp.  This time, I double click the
> > 'home' folder in the Samba folder, it opened.  But it's empty!?  I
double
> > confirmed the AutoCAD file is in the Samba server /home/chee/tmp.  I am
> > stuck!
>
> You are making the samba connection under the guest account
> which is not likely to have read permission to someone else's
> home directory on the Linux side.  You could fix it by changing
> the permissions, but you probably want something like:
>
> [homes]
>    comment = Home Directories
>    browseable = no
>    writable = yes
>    valid users = %S
>    create mode = 0664
>    directory mode = 0775
>
> which is slightly magic in that when you browse the machine
> shares from a windows box you only see your own home
> directory, i.e. the one whose name matches the name you
> use to log into your windows machine.
>
> ----
>    Les Mikesell
>      lesmikesell at attbi.com
>
>

 Hi!

Thank you for your reply and helps.  I amended the /etc/samba/smb.conf as
suggested.  However, I encounter new problems.
In the Window client, I login as "Peter" and I can see the Linux Ser fine.
However, when I
clicked the Linux Ser, it did not promp me for passward but go right to the
Netbios Name CHEE folder.  When I clicked on the CHEE folder, it was an
empty folder.  (I would expected to see "Peter" and "Secretary" folder in my
/home.  And in /home/Peter I should see /tmp with an AutoCAD file try.dwg in
it.)

However, when I am login as "root" from the window client I can see my root
folder and every
thing in it under the CHEE folder (but I can not see other share Peter and
Secretary)  .
I may missed something in my smb.conf.  My revised smb.conf file is as
following:-

# Samba config file created using SWAT
    # from chee_ch.com (127.0.0.1)
    # Date : 2002/10/26
    # Global parmeters
    [global]
               workgroup = CH
               netbios name = CHEE
               security =SHARE
               encrypt passward = Yes
               pam passward change = Yes
               passward program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
               passwd chat = *New*passward* %n\n*
               *Retype*new*passwd*%n\n*passwd:*all*
               *authentication*token*updated*successfully*
               log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
               max log size = 0
               socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF = 8192 SO_SNDBUF =
8192
               dus proxy = No
               printing = lprng
    [printers]
               comment = All printer
               path = /var/spool/samba
               printeble = Yes
               brawsable = No
    [home]
               comment = Home Directories
               browseable = no
               writable = yes
               valid users = %S
               create mode = 0664
               directory mode = 0775

My intention is to set up a Samba file server for the window client with
each user login to their own /home (Peter, Secretary etc) directory.  I
think the above may be due permission I set to Peter and Secretary.  How to
correct it?

Your reply is appreciated.  Thank you.

Oswald

p/s I am having problem with my ISP newsgroup server for the past month,
sorry if I double posted this message.
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