[Samba] Samba/win2k ??

[Hamish]

You could also use "valid users = user1 user2 @group1 @group2"

Randy S wrote:

> Usually you can just log the clients in the first time, map a network 
> drive letter to the share's they want, and check the remember 
> password, and reconnect at logon options.
>
> That'll do what you want.
>
> The default login name for network shares is the workstation user 
> name. For this reason I usu try to make the smb user names the same as 
> the workstation login usernames; keeps it simple. It is, however, easy 
> enough in 2k and XP to logon to network shares with different user name.
>
> /r
>
> Sheakoski, Corey M (PKI) wrote:
>
>> I am very new to SAMBA and new to unix as well, which makes trying to 
>> set
>> this up very fun. I am trying to get 3.0.2 setup on our UNIX station 
>> and I
>> have it up and running. I am able to set a location and get to it from
>> win2k, so I'm about half way to what I want. My question: Is there a 
>> way to
>> setup samba so that only users I allow can access the files? I want 
>> to do it
>> in such a way that samba uses the win2k logon as the username it 
>> looks for
>> and so that once the user logs onto a workstation they dont have to 
>> logon to
>> samba everytime they need to access something. I know I can block
>> workstations by way of the IP filter but would like to do it this 
>> other way.
>> This may be completely impossible so please let me know. thanks alot.
>> corey
>