Help!! I have a samba problem

Giulio Orsero giulioo at pobox.com
Thu Nov 9 15:04:29 GMT 2000


On Thu, 9 Nov 2000 14:35:15 +0000 (GMT), you wrote:

>using the swat tool I can see that all connections are
>being made by the nobody user, which is specified as
>the guest account in the conf file.
>
>How can I get samba to request a logon when I connect
>to one of the shares, so I can enter the unix user and

Don't declare the shares as "public" or "guest ok".
Set unix permissions that don't allow access to "nobody" to the exported
dirs.
If your are on 1.9.x, then use "security = user" to make things easier
to understand.

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giulioo at pobox.com




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