[Samba] samba problem

[Bradley W. Langhorst]

On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 09:36, helpdesk wrote:
> Hello I am kinda new to the whole samba and linux platform.  Well I have a
> samba problem.  We are using Red Hat 7.3 as our intranet server and we are
> trying to use samba for rights and security.  We want to lock everyone
> except IT department from accessing files on the intranet server.  As of now
> everyone can get into it.  We are trying for a password protected area.
> Also if we change the security level from share level to anything else, it
> will not let anyone in, or it will ask for a user name and password that we
> have no clue which it is.  Can anyone help?  Thank you.

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information.

what have you tried so far?
did you read the howto collection at samba.org?

samba's behaviour is defined by its configuration file 
/etc/samba/smb.conf

it sounds to me like you don't have any users set up on your linux
computer.

Share level security requires only a password, user security requires a
valid username in both /etc/smbpasswd and /etc/passwd

create those users with
useradd username (updates /etc/passwd) 
smbpasswd -a username (updates smbpasswd)

I don't know much about share level security...
i think you can put a password on certain shares - then only
those people who know the password would be able to access it.

Share level security is not in keeping with the rest of unix security in
general... I recommend that you switch to user level security and
maintain a password database.

brad