help! all users able to map other's home drive

[Hayden Wimmer]

create mode of 700, do a chmod 700 on the home directories and any
subdirectories.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lars Kneschke" <lars at kneschke.de>
To: "Melissa M. Thrush" <mmt4q at ee.virginia.edu>
Cc: <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: help! all users able to map other's home drive


> "Melissa M. Thrush" wrote:
> >
> > All,
> >
> > I recently upgraded to Samba 2.0.7 and have it running as a PDC on a Sun
> > Solaris 2.6 box.
> >
> > Today I noticed that if the file permissions on a user's unix home
> > directory isn't 700 (rwx------) then others can "map" their account from
> > the command prompt.  So if I'm logged into my WinNT client as userA my
> > home drive automatically maps.  If I open up a command prompt window and
> > type:  net use X: \\sambaserver\userB
> > userB's account maps to X!
> >
> > What could be causing this?  If I go to Network Neighborhood on userA's
> > client and go to the sambaserver I don't see userB's folder browsing
until
> > after I've successfully mapped it from the command prompt.
> >
> > Here are my Home and User entries in my smb.conf
> >
> > [homes]
> >    comment = Home Directories
> >    browseable = no
> >    read only = no
> >    create mode = 0755
> >    guest ok = no
> >
> > [Users]
> >    ; USERS directory test
> >    ;
> >    comment = USERS tree
> >    path = /home
> >    available = yes
> >    browseable = no
> >    writable = yes
> >    public = no
> >
> > Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong?
> I would say nothing. For me, this is the expected behaviour. Please have
> a look at the man page for smb.conf. There is a section about the
> [homes] section. This share gets created on the fly, if someone requests
> it(you did it :-)). And then only the unix file permissions we be
> between you and the files! :-)
>
>
> Cu
>