[Samba] problem using share level security

[John H Terpstra]

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Rajan Aggarwal wrote:

> Hi All!
>     I am facing a problem for password protection at share level.
>
> There are 2 users (user1 and user2) locally configured on my Linux
> machine. The Linux passwords for both have been configured and for
> simplicity the samba passwords for both are kept same as the Linux ones.
>
> Then , I created another user (user3) and assigned it the same password
> as for user2. Then i edited the file...smb.conf wherein under a specific
> share i specify the option "user = user3". The samba server has been
> restarted after the above changes in the config file.
>
> Now, going by the definition of "share-level security", only user2
> should be allowed to access the share. But in my case, both user1 and
> user2 are able to access the share.
>
> Does it indicate some problem with share-level security or is it some
> wrong configuration issue?


Please check the smb.conf man page for the effect of the "user ="
parameter. I suspect that what you really want is "valid user ="


- John T.
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org