SAMBA digest 2047

[iordache]

Thanks Andy !

Unfortunately the situation is unchanged. Interesting is that sometime
Win98 can see the correct shares but only the first time when is
accessing Samba and then... lost.

I'm still trying . Can someone tell me how to find what values those %..
parameters take when Samba is acessed ?

Alex
> 
> Go to http://www.reac.com/samba/ and check out the stuff with "restanon" in the filename.  Specificly, read:
> 
> http://www.reac.com/samba/samba-restanon.README
> 
> And download the restanon patch from the 2.0.2 directory -- it should apply just fine to the 2.0.3 source.
> 
> This is a patch that adds a new parameter named 'restrict anonymous' to samba.  When set to 'true' or 'yes', the %U macro
> expansion works in a more predictable manner.
> 
> Andy.
> 
> > Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 09:06:17 +0300
> > From: iordache <iordache at petrom.ro>
> > Subject: include = %what?
> >
> > Hi !
> > Let's assume we want to let users to see only certain shares. A simple
> > way to do this would be to put a line like this in smb.conf:
> >
> > include = smb.conf.%u          ;from "man smb.conf", include section:
> > "It takes
> >                                 ;standards substitution, except %u, %S,
> > %P"
> > So, another ways can be:
> >
> > include = smb.conf.%U
> >         or
> > include = %H/smb.conf
> >
> > The %U substitution works for me with Samba 1.9.18pl10. Now, with samba
> > 2.0.3 seems
> > that I can't do this anymore. Or am I wrong ? Can be another solution ?
> > And what's the reason that the %u substitution doesn't have to work ?
> >
> > And, to quote Steve Arntzen:"This is the final snag in replacing our
> > last [..]Novell server with a Samba machine."
> >
> > Alex