[Samba] Issues with home shares and W2K and MS Office

[Dan Tappin]

Here is my global section:

# General Section

         workgroup = OROURKE
         netbios name = FILESERVER
         server string = OEL File Server
         log level = 3
         log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
         share modes = yes
         encrypt passwords = yes
         wins support = yes
         wins proxy = yes
         smb passwrd file = /etc/smbpasswd

# Domain Server Section

         os level = 65
         local master = yes
         prefered master = yes
         domain master = yes
         remote announce = 192.168.0.255/OROURKE

# Performance Section

         read raw = yes
         write raw = yes
         oplocks = yes
         max xmit = 65535
         dead time = 15
         getwd cache = yes


I added security = SHARE but that did not change anything... same problem.

I am not running this as a PDC but I think I added the domain section
thinking ahead.

Dan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael G. Noble [mailto:mnoble at rfmagic.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 9:37 AM
> To: dan.tappin at orourke-eng.com
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Issues with home shares and W2K and MS Office
>
>
> I have users on W2K accessing their home without a single problem.  Here
> is what my homes looks like:
>
> [home]
>         comment = Home Directories
>         path = /export/home/%u
>         read only = No
>         veto files = /.*/
>
> My users then mount the share as the H: drive: H: \\sambaserver\home
>
> \home will always map to the uses home directory that is logged in to
> the PC.
>
> Since you do not show your global config portion, I do not know if that
> is causing a problem, I suggest that you use security=SHARE, and make
> sure that encrypt passwords = Yes.
>
> Mike
>
> On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 08:15, Dan Tappin wrote:
> > Our office is running Samba 2.2.x on Red Hat 7.x
> >
> > We have a mixed bag of Win98 and recent W2K clients.   The new
> W2K clients
> > have no trouble connecting to the current shares including a home share:
> >
> > [homes]
> > 	comment = Home Directory
> > 	writeable = yes
> > 	read only = no
> > 	browseable = no
> > 	create mode = 0600
> > 	directory mode = 0700
> > 	hide dot files = yes
> > 	veto files = /desktop/
> > 	veto files = /.*/
> > 	inherit permissions = yes
> >
> > The problem is that when running MS Office 2000 (Word, Excel,
> Outlook etc)
> > the W2K clients can't access their home share.  They are given
> a 'You do not
> > have access to the folder '\\Fileserver\w2kuser\'.  See your
> administrator
> > to access this folder' error message.
> >
> > The users are forced to save to their desktop and manually copy
> these files
> > across to their home share.  This is not an issue on Win98 at all.
> >
> > Any ideas out there?  I have searched the lists and can't find
> an obvious
> > solution.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dan
> >
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